Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 327. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE. Samothrace. Circa 500-475 BC. AR Hemiobol (2.21 gm). Sphinx seated left, paw raised / Head of roaring lion left within dotted incuse square. Schwabacher, "Ein Fund Archaischer Münzen von Samothrake," Transactions of the International Numismatic Congress, 1936, pg. 111, 9; BMC Thrace -; SNG Copenhagen 991; Traité pl. cliv, 16 (as Chios). Attractively toned, good VF, choice flan, reverse weakly struck. Rare. ($750)