154, Lot: 30. Estimate $100. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Galepsos. Circa 4th century BC. Æ 13mm (2.15 g). Head of youthful Dionysos left / GALHYIWN, forepart of goat left, head reverted. Bon, “Monnaie inédite de Galepsos”, in BCH LX (1936) pp. 172-174. VF, green patina. Very rare.

The town of Galepsos was located on the Strymon Gulf, about 20 kilometers east of Amphipolis, and not far from the island of Thasos, where Bon reported the finding of one of its coins. No example of its coinage appears in any of the major collections, and the town is not even recorded as a mint in Sear or any of the other basic handbooks of Greek coins. The article by Bon in Bulletin de correspondance hellenique seems to be the only publication of this rare coinage.