345, Lot: 38. Estimate $500. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Gortyna. Circa 98/6-94 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 3.27 g, 12h). Diademed head of Zeus right / Apollo seated left on pile of rocks, resting hand on knee and holding bow and arrow; all within dotted border. Svoronos, Numismatique 163; SNG Copenhagen 449; cf. Boutin 134-5; Evans –; cf. Traeger 110-1. Good VF, toned, some red and green deposits, struck with worn dies. Rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular LXXXVI (April 1978), no. 4616.