Unusual Double Strike

354, Lot: 33. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Chersonesos. Circa 386-338 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 2.42 g). Forepart of lion right, head left / Quadripartite incuse square with alternating raised and sunken quarters, pellet with monogram and lizard in opposite sunken quarters. McClean 4088–95 var. (animal on rev.); SNG Copenhagen 830 var. (monogram) and 823 var. (animal); BMC 27. VF, toned, unusual double-strike on obverse.