Ex Pozzi Collection

452, Lot: 316. Estimate $300. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Lampsakos. Memnon of Rhodes. Circa 356-354 BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 3.10 g, 6h). Pseudo-Rhodian type. Youthful head of Helios left on radiate solar disk / Rose with buds to either side; M-E flanking. Ellis-Evans, Memnon, dies O18/R31 = Ashton, Solar 27 (dies A14/P20) = Pozzi 2662 (this coin). Toned, roughness, a few marks on obverse. VF. Rare.

From the Baldwin Maull Collection. Ex Salton-Schlessinger FPL 28 (Spring 1959), no. 59; Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 14 March 1921), lot 2662.