Lot 4218

Description

Boiotia, Orchomenos, (late 5th century - 364 B.C.), silver hemiobol, (0.34 g), obv. half wheat grain, sprouting end upward, symbol on left field, rev. P - E (retrograde) across lower field, (S.2436, BCD 209b [Triton IX], variety apparently otherwise unpublished); Sikyonia, Sikyon, (c.431-400 B.C.), silver hemiobol (0.35 g), obv. Lion at bay to left on ground line, **S* below, rev. dove flying left within wreath, (S.2770, BCD Peloponnesos 207 var. and CNG Sale 81 [lot 2060], BMC 38-40). Second porous, both fine, first a very rare variety. (2)

Ex Jonathan Cohen Collection, with his tickets.