Extremely Rare Thyrrheion Bronze

375, Lot: 325. Estimate $100. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AKARNANIA, Thyrrheion. Circa 250 BC. Æ (12mm, 1.34 g, 5h). Head of Achelӧos right / Wreath. Imhoof-Blumer, Akarnaniens –; BCD Akarnania –; HGC 4, –; BMC Thessaly 12–3, pl. 30, 1 var. (Θ within wreath); N. Molinari & N. Sisci, Potamikon: Sinews of Acheloios. A Comprehensive Catalog of the Bronze Coinage of the Man-Faced Bull, with Essays on Origin and Identity (Oxford: Archaeopress, forthcoming), 483 = Künker 133, lot 7119. VF, dark green patina. Extremely rare, none in CoinArchives, missing from BCD.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Triton VIII, 12 January 2005), lot 1843 (part of).