Exceptional Drachm from the 1936 Paros Hoard

Triton XVIII, Lot: 554. Estimate $5000. Sold for $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYCLADES, Paros. Circa 500-497/5 BC. AR Drachm (16.5mm, 5.81 g). Goat kneeling right on double exergual line / Quadripartite incuse square. Sheedy Class C, Group 2, 65a (O40/R50 – this coin, illustrated); HGC 6, 653; SNG Delepierre 2443–4; Dewing 1959. EF, a couple of minor edge splits. Recently conserved. Well centered and struck on a broad flan. Exceptional.

From the RH Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXII (1 June 1989), lot 294; Birkler & Waddell 2 (11 December 1980), lot 160; Numismatic Fine Arts VII (6 December 1979), lot 139; Superior (13 June 1977), lot 2630; J. Schulman FPL 214 (October 1978), no. 168; 1936 Paros Hoard (IGCH 13).

This coin was professionally conserved since the NFA XXII sale, a process that removed a considerable amount of encrustation at the bottom of the obverse and across the reverse (visible in all prior photos), resulting in a reduction of the recorded weight from 5.96 to 5.81 grams.