Three Rare Asia Minor Fractions

CNG 108, Lot: 250. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1111. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. 5th century BC. AR Third Stater or Drachm (14mm, 4.33 g, 8h). Bull(?) standing left / Stag standing left, head right; palm frond to left; all within incuse square. Triton XXI, lot 515; otherwise unpublished. Near VF, find patina, heavily smoothed. Extremely rare, apparently one of two known.

Ex Numismatik Naumann 53 (7 May 2017), lot 305 (realized €4000, before cleaning).

The animal on the obverse here, and on the following lot, appears to be the same creature featured on the obverse of other obscure early issues; see CNG 105, lot 393 (same denomination); CNG E-369, lot 140 and CNG E-321, lot 167 (obols); and CNG E-361, lot 748 (hemiobol). All of these coins have a similar style, and perhaps are from a single mint.