Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 971. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PISIDIA, Selge. Circa 300 BC. AR Stater (10.60 g, 12h). Two wrestlers grappling; AL between / SELGEWN, Herakles standing facing, head right, holding club overhead in his right hand, lion skin draped over left arm. SNG France -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; SNG von Aulock -; cf. Weber 7424 (same obv. die; different reverse type). EF, lightly toned. Unpublished and extremely rare transitional issue. ($3000)

This coin pairs an obverse die from the earlier series (reverse in a square pelleted border) with a reverse from the later series (reverse in a circular pelleted border). The artwork is particularly good, which also suggests an earlier, rather than later, issue.