Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 628. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SAMARIA. Circa 375-333 BCE. AR Obol (0.57 gm, 12h). Goat kneeling right, head reverted / Janiform head, the head on the left a youthful male with ram's-head headdress, the right an older bearded male with lion's-head(?) headdress. Meshorer & Qedar 144. Good VF, toned, struck from worn obverse die. ($300)

Although M&Q describe the animal as a crouching stag, it is clearly a goat copied from the staters of Kelenderis in Cilicia (SNG Levante 21). There are several varieties of Cilician fractions with janiform heads, but apparently none with the additional animal heads. The obverse and reverse are inverted from their order in M&Q.