406, Lot: 133. Estimate $300. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Oisyme. Circa 400-350 BC. Æ Chalkous (10.5mm, 1.58 g, 9h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Herakles, wearing lion skin, kneeling right, drawing bow. Picard, Monnayage, fig. 1-2; Head, HN, p. 892; HGC 3.1, –. Near VF, black patina, areas of roughness. Clear legend and types. Extremely rare, one of only four in CoinArchives.

Oisyme was a small colony established by the Thasians along the coast of Macedon between Amphipolis and Neapolis. This issue of bronze chalkoi is the sole coinage of the city, and only a handful are known, none of which have apparently appeared at auction.