Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2208. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Coin Weight. Æ Coin Weight (4.07 g, 6h). +PA LAION OLOTRA CON, in four lines across field / ELA FRON, in two lines across field. Bendall, Weights 19. VF. brown patina with green overtones.

The weight of this piece, 4.07 grams, is notably higher than the specimen cited in Bendall at 3.90 grams. The Greek legend is more problematic, since the meaning of olotracon is otherwise unattested. Bendall in his translation of the legend, “the old, unmutilated light-weight [coin],” renders the word as “unmutilated.” Another possibility is “unclipped, ” making this a hapax legomenon.