Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 415. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $370. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Pergamon. Uncertain satrap. Circa 450 BC. AR Diobol (1.53 gm). Laureate head of Apollo right / Bearded head of satrap right in incuse square. SNG France 1546; SNG von Aulock 1347; Babelon, Les Perses 374. EF, but flan chipped on edge from 4:00 to 6:00. Very rare. ($200)

The satrapal portrait cannot be positively identified, but stylistically it should be placed under either Eurysthenes or Gongylos, both administrators of the mid-late 5th century BC.