Triton XVIII, Lot: 504. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AITOLIA, Aitolian League. Circa 220-205 BC. AR Didrachm (22.5mm, 10.35 g, 1h). Head of Apollo right, wearing oak wreath / Aitolos standing left, kausia hung around neck and sword slung at waist, holding spear in right hand, right foot set on rock, leaning on raised right knee; ΓEN Σ to left, AITΩΛΩN to right. Tsangari 818a (D42/R127) = BCD Akarnania 450 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen –; Pozzi 1329 var. (no Σ to left). Near EF, toned, a little die wear, small flan flaw on obverse, die shift on reverse. Very rare issue, one of only six noted by Tsangari.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Hess-Divo 309 (28 April 2008), lot 51; BCD Collection (Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 23, 18 October 2007), lot 450; Stack’s (29 November 1990), lot 260; Hess-Leu (2 April 1958), lot 163.