Ex Sellwood Collection

436, Lot: 175. Estimate $200. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 500/490-485/0 BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.59 g, 6h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right, head facing; olive-spray to left; all within incuse square. Seltman Group Gii, p. 188, pl. XXII, κ; HGC 4, 1658. Fine, toned, some porosity.

Ex David Sellwood Collection (Baldwin’s Argentum Sale, 4 June 2016), lot 31 (part of).

Please note that a photo of the Sellwood large lot is not present in the printed catalog, but is available in the online record of the sale at the Sixbid.com and Numisbid.com websites. Sellwood is best known as the foremost numismatic scholar of Parthian coinage, publishing two editions of the standard work on the subject, An Introduction to the Coinage of Parthia. He purchased most of his coins from Baldwin’s, primarily in the 1950s and 1960s, but continued to collect until his death in April, 2012.