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Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 601. Estimate $500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004. 
Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYCLADES, Uncertain. Before 500 BC. AR Drachm (4.08 gm). Head of boar right / Square incuse punch. BMC Crete -; SNG Copenhagen -; Wroth, "The Santorin Find of 1821," NumChron 1884, pl. XII, 10. VF, toned. Very rare. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXIV (9 December 1992), lot 261.

82 examples were found at Santorini, with both plain square punched reverses and quartered incuse squares, the former probably somewhat earlier.