Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 451. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off TROAS. Tenedos. After 189 BC. AR Drachm (3.83 gm). Janiform male and female heads / Double axe; monogram and grapes to left, tripod on right; all within laurel wreath. De Callataÿ, Tenédos 48 (same obverse die); SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen 524 var. (symbol). Toned, good VF, minor porosity. Very rare variety, only one specimen cited by De Callataÿ with this monogram-symbol combination. ($500)