Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 501. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1175. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AEOLIS, Kyme. Circa 165-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.74 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Olympios, magistrate. Head of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing taenia with small H inscribed near the back end / Horse prancing right; one-handled cup below horse, OΛMΠIOC below; all within wreath. Oakley dies 50/a; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 80 (same dies). Near EF, attractively toned.

The small H on the tainia is clearly visible on both specimens cited by Oakley for this obverse die, but no mention of it is made in his article.