318, Lot: 190. Estimate $100. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TROAS, Kebren(?). Late 6th-early 5th centuries BC. AR Obol (9mm, 0.58 g). Ram’s head left; below, tunny fish right / Quadripartite incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references. Good VF, toned, some granularity.

The obverse type of a ram’s head left is very similar, stylistically, to the early coinage of Kebren. Although the type is not published with a tunny fish beneath the ram’s head, which is usually indicative of Kyzikos, there are other symbols, such as a bird, that do appear on the Kebren coinage beneath the ram.