Gitler & Tal Plate Coin

CNG 93, Lot: 544. Estimate $200. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SAMARIA. Circa 375-333 BC. AR Hemiobol (9mm, 0.64 g, 1h). Head of Herakles(?) left, wearing lion skin / Owl standing right, head facing; olive spray to left, [Θ]E to right; all within incuse square. Meshorer & Qedar –; HGC 10, –; H. Gitler & O. Tal, “Coins with the Aramaic Legend Šhrw and other unrecorded Samarian Issues,” SNR 85 (2006), 11c (this coin). VF, porous, die break on reverse. Extremely rare, only three examples noted by Gitler & Tal.