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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 604 | Auction date: 18 February 2026 |
| Lot number: 90 Price realized: 160 USD (Approx. 135 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: PHOKIS, Federal Coinage. Circa 445-420 BC. AR Triobol – Hemidrachm (13mm, 2.38 g, 12h). Head of bull facing / Head of Artemis left within incuse square. Williams 237 (O165/R136); BCD Lokris 250.2 (same rev. die); HGC 4, 1040 (same rev. die as illustration); Dow, ACTTB, p. 88 (this coin). Find patina, cleaning marks. VF. From the Joseph A. Dow Collection. The present coin is published in Joseph A. Dow, Ancient Coins Through the Bible (Mustang, OK: Tate, 2011), in the chapter The Greek Empire. CNG is pleased to offer coins from the collection of the author here, and in subsequent electronic auctions. Estimate: 150 USD |  |
Match 1:
| Davissons, Ltd. > E-Auction 52 | Auction date: 19 November 2025 |
| Lot number: 69 Price realized: 225 USD (Approx. 195 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: PHOKIS. Federal Coinage. Circa 445-420 B.C. AR triobol. 2.89 gm. 13 mm. Facing head of bull / Head of Artemis right within incuse square; Φ-Ο-Κ-Ι. HGC 4, 1039. Williams 195 (O142/R115). BCD Lokris 235.1 (same dies). Near Very Fine; rich old collection tone; high relief strike; attractive bust. Rare. The Peter Bartlett Collection. Ex CNG XXXI (9-10 September 1994) lot 230 (The Dr. Frank J. Novak Collection). Estimate: 250 USD |  |
Match 2:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 609 | Auction date: 13 May 2026 |
| Lot number: 99 Price realized: 160 USD (Approx. 136 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: PHOKIS, Federal Coinage. Circa 357-354 BC. AR Triobol (14mm, 2.68 g, 11h). Philomelos, strategos. Facing head of bull / Laureate head of Apollo right; laurel branch to left. Williams 320–4 var. (O226/R– [unlisted rev. die]); BCD Lokris 281.1–2 (same obv. die); HGC 4, 1048. Toned. Near VF. From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Herb Kreindler, 16 January 2003. Estimate: 100 USD |  |
Match 3:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXIX | Auction date: 13 January 2026 |
| Lot number: 190 Price realized: 5,000 USD (Approx. 4,281 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ARKADIA, Arkadian League. Circa 465-460 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15.5mm, 2.95 g, 12h). Tegea mint. Zeus Lykaios seated left, on throne with swan's head at the top, holding scepter in left hand and extending right arm from which an eagle flies left / Head of Kallisto left, wearing tainia, single-pendant earring, and necklace; retrograde ARKAD-IK-ON clockwise around from lower left; all within incuse square. Williams, Confederate, Period II.1, 79 (O57/R50); BCD Peloponnesos (Tegea) 1710 (this coin); Traeger, Arkadien 37 (this coin illustrated); HGC 5, 1033 (this coin illustrated); SNG Copenhagen Supp. 274 (same dies); Weber 4288 (same obv. die). Beautiful deep cabinet tone with some iridescence, trace deposits, granular surfaces, edge chip. Near EF. Ex Peus 401 (3 November 2010), lot 335; BCD Collection (LHS Numismatics 96, 8 May 2006), lot 1710; Numismatica Ars Classica 6 (11 March 1993), lot 148; Schweizerischer Bankverein 29 (28 January 1992), lot 120. Estimate: 1000 USD |  |
Match 4:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXIX | Auction date: 13 January 2026 |
| Lot number: 167 Price realized: 3,000 USD (Approx. 2,568 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: THESSALY, Pharsalos. Late 5th-mid 4th century BC. AR Drachm (17.5mm, 6.02 g, 12h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with sphinx leaping right from floral ornament, single-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; E behind neck guard / Warrior, wearing petasos and holding mace overhead in right hand, on horseback right; Φ-A-P-Σ (partially retrograde) clockwise around from upper left; all within incuse square. Lavva 163 var. (V76/R– [unlisted rev. die]); BCD Thessaly II 651 (same obv. die); HGC 4, 627 (same obv. die as illustration); Jameson 2473 (same obv. die). Deep iridescent tone, irregular flan, edge mark. VF. Estimate: 1000 USD |  |
Match 5:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 605 | Auction date: 4 March 2026 |
| Lot number: 106 Price realized: 475 USD (Approx. 408 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 460-450 BC. AR Drachm (19.5mm, 5.64 g, 12h). The hero Thessalos, nude but for petasos, holding band around the head of a bull charging right; lotus flower below / Bridled horse prancing left within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 9 var. (no lotus flower); BCD Thessaly II 152; HGC 4, 411 (same obv. die as illustration). Lightly toned, edge splits, cleaning marks in fields. VF. From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex BCD Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 311, 25 September 2013), lot 105. Estimate: 200 USD |  |
