Rare Skyros from BCD

Triton XVIII, Lot: 500. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THESSALY, Skyros. Circa 485-480 BC. AR Tetrobol (15mm, 2.86 g). Three-lobed fig leaf between two long horned and bearded goats, opposed vertically, back to back, with their heads turned inwards and their legs extended / Stellate design, composed of a large central globule surrounded by four pellets and four rays, two of which are three-lobed fig leaves, within incuse square. Balcer, Archaic 24 (A8/P5) = BCD Thessaly I 1368 (this coin); Joy –; HGC 6, 418; Boston MFA 937; Traité IV 780 = Pozzi 2050 (all from the same dies). Good Fine, toned. Extremely rare, only six examples noted by Balcer, four of which are in museums (Athens, Berlin, Boston, and New York).

From the RAJ Collection. Ex BCD Collection (Nomos 4, 10 May 2011), lot 1368; Myers 12 (4 December 1975), lot 177; Hamburger 98 (3 April 1933), lot 807.