303, Lot: 9. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BLACK SEA REGION, Uncertain. 5th century BC. Æ (55mm, 34.43 g). Four-spoked wheel / Blank. Unpublished in the standard references, but see CNG e132, lot 22 for another example. VF, green patina, scattered nicks and scratches.

The fact that this piece is uniface, has no ethnic or civic emblems, and is holed (as is the example we previously sold) suggests that it was not manufactured as a coin, but rather some kind of ornament or good luck charm using the apotropaic wheel/astral symbol popular in the Black Sea.