The Finest Known

Triton XVIII, Lot: 760. Estimate $7500. Sold for $30000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHILISTIA (PALESTINE), Uncertain mint. Mid 5th century-333 BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 3.30 g, 12h). Obverse imitating Athens. Head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and palmette on the bowl / Winged lion seated right, raising left forepaw; b (in Phoenician) above; to lower right, facing head of Bes; all in dotted square within incuse square. Gitler & Tal XIII.14Da (this coin); Mildenberg, Gaza, pl. XXVI, 5; HGC 10, –; Sofaer –; Traité II 1049. EF, toned, a touch of roughness, a little soft on reverse. Good metal. Extremely rare, and the finest.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Goldberg (7 June 2000), lot 3218.