Extremely Rare Denomination

389, Lot: 197. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS, Pantikapaion. Circa 420-410 BC. AR Tetartemorion (6mm, 0.14 g). Facing head of lion / Quadripartite incuse square with windmill/swastika pattern with central star, ethnic in quarters. Cf. Frolova, frühe, Type XIII (unlisted denomination); Anokhin –; MacDonald –; HGC 7, –. Good VF, toned, obverse slightly off center. Extremely rare as a tetartemorion, unlisted in the standard references, only one in CoinArchives.