Triton XVI, Lot: 133. Estimate $300. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TAURIC CHERSONESOS, Chersonesos. Circa 220-210 BC. AR Hemidrachm (16mm, 1.69 g, 12h). Zoilos, magistrate. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Bull butting left, head facing; XEP above, ZOIΛOY in exergue. Anokhin 754; Anokhin, Khersonesa 129; SNG BM Black Sea 788 var. (magistrate); SNG Pushkin 661; SNG Stancomb 483 var. (same); Sutzu II –. VF, thick find patina. Very rare.

From the Alex Shubs Collection.

Although Anokhin and SNG Pushkin list the magistrate on their examples as ZOIΛ, is it likely that they bear the full magistrate’s name as here, but the off-center strike on both of those coins obscures a definitive reading.