Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 40. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Pandosia. Circa 375-350 BC. AR Triobol (1.06 g, 2h). Head of Hera facing slightly right, wearing polos decorated with palmettes and griffins / Pan seated right on rocks, holding spears. SNG ANS 601; BMC Sicily 4; HN Italy 2452. VF, toned, slight granularity, reverse die shift. Extremely rare, and better than the published examples. ($2000)

Pandosia is best known to history as the city in which Alexander the Molossian was killed in 330 BC.