Two Very Rare Pedigreed Olbian Gold

Triton XIX, Lot: 2032. Estimate $5000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SKYTHIA, Olbia. Circa 315-310 BC. AV Hemidrachm (11.5mm, 2.14 g, 11h). Head of Demeter left, wearing grain ear wreath / Dolphin left; OΛ below. Anokhin 291; Karyshkovskij p. 268, 27, pl. XI=C, 2 (same dies); Frolova & Abramzon 695–6; SNG Black Sea 550; SNG Pushkin 138 (same dies); SNG Stancomb –; Sutzu II –; J.G. Vinogradov & S.D. Kryžickij, Olbia. Eine altgriechische Stadt im nordwestlichen Schwarzmeerraum (Brill, 1995), pl. 86, 15 (same dies). EF, light scratch in field on reverse. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Vinchon (24 November 1994), lot 47.