Very Rare Wappenmünzen Hemiobol

CNG 106, Lot: 253. Estimate $750. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 515-510 BC. AR Hemiobol (6.5mm, 0.33 g). Pomegranate / Incuse square. Seltman p. 167 and pl. IV, ζζ corr. (pomegranate, not apple); HGC 4, 1670; E. Pászthory, “Archäometrische untersuchungen an archaischen Münzen Athens” in SM 126 (May 1982), 32 (this coin). Good Fine, toned, slightly granular. Very rare, only one in CoinArchives.

Ex Leu 65 (21 May 1996), lot 161.