Sale: CNG 64, Lot: 584. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EUBOIA, Eretria. Commodus. 180-192 AD. Æ 23mm (9.19 gm). Laureate head right / Triform bust of gods, the central female head with tall headdress, the flanking male heads bearded. BCD 359=Pozzi 3402 (this coin); Wroth, "Greek Coins Acquired by the British Museum in 1901", NumChron 1902 pg. 322, 11. Good VF, brown patina. Extremely rare. ($2000)

Ex BCD Collection (Lanz 111, 25 November 2002), lot 359; Pozzi Collection, 3402; Rhousopoulos Collection (Hirsh XIII, 15 May 1905), lot 1911.

Possible identifications of the triform figure, cited by Wroth, include Hekate (the male heads on the BM coin were unclear), three phases of the moon, and Demeter with two Kabeiroi. Taking note of the principal deities honored on the coins of Euboia, we can offer a simpler alternative, that they are Hera, wearing a tall polos, Herakles (on the left, with traces of a lion skin knotted around his shoulders) and Zeus.