Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 379. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EUBOEA, Chalkis. Circa 180-146 BC. AR Octobol (5.57 gm). Magistrate Alexon. Head of the nymph Chalkis right / Eagle standing right, holding serpent in its talons; ALEXWN to right. Picard Em. 60 (Vs1/Rsa) = BCD 239 = Pozzi 3363 (this coin); BMC Central Greece pg. 114, 86 var. (magistrate); cf. SNG Copenhagen 447. Attractively toned, good VF. Very rare. ($1500)

Ex BCD Collection (Lanz 111, 25 November 2002), lot 239; Galleries de Monnaies (25-26 June 1976), lot 717; Ars Classica XVII (3 October 1934), lot 463; Prof. Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 4 April 1921), lot 1484.