426, Lot: 195. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Uncertain. Mid 5th century BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.69 g, 2h). Head and foreleg of lion right / Facing head of lion. S. Hurter, “Lions and lionesses, eagles and a few heads: a new uncertain mint in Caria” in Essays Hersh, Group II, 30 (this coin); SNG Kayhan 983–4. VF, toned. Very rare.

Ex “Unknown findspot, before 1992” Hoard (CH 9, 359).