345, Lot: 40. Estimate $75. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Gortyna. Circa 85-82 BC. Æ (13mm, 1.76 g, 3h). Head of Hermes right, wearing petasos / Bull butting left; caduceus above; all within circle of dots. Jackson pl. 14, 14; Svoronos, Numismatique 188, pl. XVI 28; SNG Copenhagen 460; Traeger 93e (this coin). Fine, dark green patina, some roughness. Very rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Dr. Burkhard Traeger Collection (Künker 136, 10 March 2008), lot 93 (part of); James H. Joy Collection (Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 21, 24 May 2007), lot 468 (part of).