Lot 4217
Sale 115 · Important Australian, Ancient British & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes
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Description
Boiotia, Mykalessos, (c.400-375 B.C.), silver obol, 10mm, (0.40 g), obv. Boeotian shield, rev. vertical thunderbolt, Y to left, M to right, all within concave circle. (BCD Boiotia 177 [similar dies]). Very fine, toned, light porosity and light weight.
Ex Jonathan Cohen Collection and previously from the BCD Collection with his ticket.
The retrograde ethnic on the reverse of these obols make them slightly scarcer than the coins struck with the letters reading from left to right. Greeks were quite used to reading backwards and this is one of the reasons that so many coin inscriptions are retrograde.
- Estimate
- $100
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $90