Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 650. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TROAS, Gargara. Circa 500-475 BC. AR Hemiobol (0.54 gm). GAR, female head left, hair bound in sakkos / Quadripartite incuse square. BMC Troas -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; Traité -; Klein -; Rosen -. Good VF, slight flan bend. Apparently unpublished. ($200)

The location of this issue is based on the ethnic, but the style places it a at least a half century before the accepted date for the earliest coinage of Gargara.