Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 331. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHLIASIA, Phlius. Circa 6th Century BC. AR Didrachm (7.13 gm). F, triskeles running clockwise / Incuse square divided into six irregular sections. Seltman Group J, 314 (P259/A207; Athenians at Delphi); BMC Peloponnesus -; SNG Copenhagen -; Traité I pg. 813, 1181 = Weber 3874 = J.P. Six, "Monnaies grecques, inédites et incertaines," NumChron 1888, 4; Traité pl. XXXIII, 12 = J.P. Six, op.cit., 3 var. (triskeles counterclockwise); Hirsch 1269 var. (same; Athens). EF, toned. Extremely rare, one of about six known. ($10,000)

See Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 514, for another struck from the same dies.