From the Herman, Tronnier, Bement, Weber, and Moore Collections

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 257. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Rhaokos. Circa 300-270 BC. AR Drachm (5.55 g). Youthful head facing slightly right / Two dolphins swimming diagonally in opposite directions; archiac A in corners above each, • in other corners; all in incuse square. Svoronos, Numismatique 3; SNG Copenhagen -; Weber 4590 (this coin). VF, toned, minor surface roughness, light smoothing on reverse. Extremely rare.

From the David Herman Collection. Ex Hagen Tronnier Collection (Künker 94, 27 September 2004), lot 926; Clarence S. Bement Collection (Naville VII, 23 June 1924), lot 1323; Sir Herman Weber Collection, 4590; W. Yorke Moore Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1 March 1889).