374, Lot: 240. Estimate $2000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off TROAS, Tenedos. Circa 100-70 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.09 g, 1h). Janiform head of a laureate male and diademed female / Labrys; to left, TE monogram and grape bunch on vine; to right, Artemis standing left, holding long torch, forepart of stag standing left below; all within laurel wreath. Callataÿ, Tenedos 6 (D3/R1 – this coin); HGC 6, 390. Good VF, toned, flan broken and repaired, die breaks on reverse. Extremely rare, one of two known for this issue (see Nomos 5, lot 181 for the other). LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS.

Ex Jules Desneux Collection (Hess-Leu 49, 27 April 1971), lot 199.