99, Lot: 15. Estimate $100. Sold for $72. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Pergamon. Uncertain Satrap. Circa 450 BC. AR Diobol (10mm, 1.62 gm). Laureate head of Apollo right / Bearded head of satrap right in incuse square. SNG France 1546; SNG von Aulock 1347; Babelon, Perses 374. Fine. Very rare.

The satrapal portrait cannot be positively identified, but stylistically it should be placed under either Eurysthenes or Gongylos, both administrators of the mid-late 5th century BC.