288, Lot: 225. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Erythrai(?). Circa 500 BC. AR Obol (7mm, 0.56 g). Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin / Incuse pattern. Traité I 996, pl. XXVIII, 17; Rosen -; SNG Keckman -; SNG Kayhan -. VF, toned. Very rare.

Although Babelon attributes this type to an uncertain mint in Asia Minor, the head of Herakles bears a marked resemblance to that found on the electrum coinage of Erythrai in Ionia.