Ex Pozzi Collection

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2063. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SIKYONIA, Sikyon. Circa 431-400 BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.17 g, 11h). Lion standing right; no ground line / Dove flying right within wreath. BCD Peloponnesos -; Pozzi (Boutin) 4068 corr. (this coin). VF, find patina, slight die shift on obverse. The only published example, possibly unique.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); S. Pozzi Collection, 4068 (Boutin).

In Boutin’s catalog of the Pozzi collection, he lists this coin simply as “another example” of the hemiobol described in item 4065. However, not only are the types here opposite of that coin, it also is clearly a tetartemorion, not a hemiobol.