From the Niggeler Collection
Triton XVI, Lot: 324. Estimate $500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Kierion. Circa 350-325 BC. AR Trihemiobol (14mm, 1.27 g, 3h). Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / Arne kneeling right, head left, playing with astragaloi; Φ to right; KIEPIE-IΩИ at sides. BCD Thessaly II 104.1 (same dies); Pozzi 2727 (same dies). Good VF, attractive old cabinet toning, light scratches and minor cut under tone on reverse. Rare.
From the BCD Collection. Ex Kovacs IX (21 November 1988), lot 83; Walter Niggeler Collection (Part I, Leu/Münzen und Medaillen, 3 December 1965), lot 251.