Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 609. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $420. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Gortyna. Circa 2nd-1st century BC. AR Drachm (3.96 gm). Diademed head of Minos right / Apollo seated left on rock, holding bow and arrow. Svoronos, Crète 173; BMC Crete pg. 43, 49 var. (B on reverse); SNG Copenhagen 449 var. (same). EF, flan crack, some light porosity, bright surfaces. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.