Overstruck on Wappenmünzen

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 254. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CORINTHIA, Corinth. Circa 550-500 BC. AR Stater (8.36 g). Pegasos flying left; koppa below / Quadripartite incuse square with swastika pattern. Ravel 50 (P40/T38); Pegasi 24; BCD Corinth 3; SNG Copenhagen 2-3. VF, porous, struck with worn obverse die. Overstruck on an Athens Wappenmünzen didrachm (gorgoneion clearly visible on the reverse). Very rare.