Plutarch’s Verdict: “The man most instrumental in achieving the salvation of Greece”

CNG 96, Lot: 433. Estimate $500. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Themistokles. Circa 465-459 BC. AR Trihemiobol (9mm, 1.04 g, 2h). Head of Hephaistos right, wearing laureate pilos; [Θ-E flanking] / ΘE in dotted square border within incuse square. Nollé & Wenninger 3c; Cahn & Gerin 7 (in the Ashmolean); SNG Copenhagen –; Gemini IV, lot 179; Aufhäuser 13, lot 144; NAC K, lot 1312 (all from the same dies). VF, toned, typical light porosity. Extremely rare, one of five known.