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Rare Early Assos Silver

351, Lot: 247. Estimate $200.
Sold for $470. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TROAS, Assos. Circa 450-400 BC. AR Triobol – Hemidrachm (11mm, 1.77 g, 1h). Helmeted head of Athena left / Head of lion left; A-ΣΣI-O-O retrograde around; all within incuse square. SNG Ashmolean –; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG München –; cf. BMC p. 36, β = Weber 5320 (drachm); Traité II 2304 = De Luynes 2510 var. (arrangement of ethnic); CNG E-287, lot 127 var. (same). VF, toned, minor porosity, a few marks. Very rare.