CNG 93, Lot: 364. Estimate $500. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLANDS off TROAS, Tenedos. Early-mid 5th century BC. AR Didrachm (19mm, 7.30 g, 11h). Janiform head of a male, left, and female, right / Labrys; kantharos to lower right; all in linear square border within incuse square. SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Ashmolean 1232; HGC 6, 378 var. (no symbol on rev.). VF, toned, typical areas of weak strike, porous, light marks under tone on obverse. Very rare.
Ex Herbert Cahn Collection.