Very Rare Alliance Issue

308, Lot: 23. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Byzantion. Late 3rd-2nd centuries BC. Æ (23mm, 9.55 g, 12h). Alliance issue with Kalchedon in Bythinia. Diademd head of Poseidon right / Athena Promachos right; ΚALXA downward to left, BYZAN downward to right. Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1296–1300 var. (unlisted dies); SNG BM Black Sea 80; SNG Stancomb –; Weber 2586. VF, dark brown patina, lightly porous. Very rare, only 8 specimens were known to Schönert-Geiss.

From the Demetrios Armounta Collection.