287, Lot: 206. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Kos(?). Circa 500-480 BC. AR Obol(?) (8mm, 0.62 g). Crab with eight legs / Quadripartite incuse square. BMC 5; cf. SNG Kayhan 903 (crab with six legs, slightly different incuse); cf. Tzamalis 5 (same); cf. HPM pl. XV, 16 (slightly different incuse); HGC 6, 1297. VF, porous.

Alternatively, such “crab/incuse” types have been attributed to an uncertain Thraco-Macedonian mint (as Tzamalis and Svoronos [HPM], cited above). The possibility that there were two mints producing “crab/incuse” fractions must be considered a possibility as well.