Lot 3256

Description

Euboia, Histiaia, (mid 4th century B.C.), silver tetrobol, (2.43 grams), obv. nymph Histiaia head to right wreathed with vine leaves, hair rolled, rev. nymph Histiaia seated to right on galley with stylis, legend **ISTIAI to lower right, E**W*N (N reversed) behind, aplustre on galley, (S.2495 [£100], cf.BCD 362 and 366 [Lanz 111, similar obverse die], cf.BMC 24 [Pl.XXIV, 6]). Surface crazing, otherwise good fine/fine and very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (with his ticket and photos) previously purchased from Malcolm Hay in December 1980 for 200 SFr. Of the earliest style portrait and an issue without the grape symbol. 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.