Lot 2035

Description

Thrace (Moesia Inferior), Istros, (400-350 B.C.), silver trihemiobol (quarter stater Sear), (1.09 g), obv. two young male heads facing, side by side, left upright, right inverted, rev. I**S*TPIH above sea-eagle standing to left on dolphin to left, which it attacks with its beak, below dolphin **D*, and **Q* below eagle tail, (S.1670, Pick -, SNG BMC -, SNG Stancomb -, SNG Cop. -, Dima table III, Group IV, subgroup III, [R] and dates 340/330 - 313 B.C., HGC 3, 1806). Attractively toned, nearly extremely fine, extremely rare variety.

Ex Anthony "Tony" Taylor Collection.^Noble Numismatics Sale 134, lot 3504. Previously Numismatik Lanz, Munich, Auction 102, 28 May 2001 (lot 87). This coin the only recorded example of these letters in Coin Archives.