Lot 3187

Description

Euboia, Histiaia, (late 4th century B.C.), silver tetrobol, (2.412 grams), obv. nymph Histiaia head to right wreathed with vine leaves, hair rolled, rev. nymph Histiaia seated to right on galley with stylis, bunch of grapes behind, trident head below, legend **ISTIA to left, AIE**W*N behind, aplustre on galley, (S.2495 [£100], BMC 24-25 [Pl.XXIV, 6]). Very fine/fine and rare.

Ex BCD Collection (with his ticket) and previously purchased in February 1991 for 7500 drachmas. The issue, from which the huge Histiaian issues of the following century were copied, commemorate the expulsion, with Athenian help, of the pro-Macedonian tyrant Philistides in 340 B.C.