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| Nomos AG > obolos 42 | Auction date: 3 May 2026 |
| Lot number: 275 Price realized: 160 CHF (Approx. 205 USD / 174 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: TROAS. Neandreia. late 6th-5th century BC. Obol (Silver, 8 mm, 0.74 g). Crestless Corinthian helmet to left. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. Rosen 109 (Skione in Macedonia). SNG Arıkantürk 664-665. SNG Kayhan 743 (uncertain Ionia or Caria). Unusually well-struck and attractive for the type. Granular surfaces, otherwise, good extremely fine. Starting price: 100 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > obolos 43 | Auction date: 5 July 2026 |
| Lot number: 372 Price realized: 80 CHF (Approx. 100 USD / 87 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: TROAS. Dardanos. Circa 5th century BC. Obol (Silver, 7 mm, 0.57 g). Head of rooster to right. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. Seemingly unpublished in the standard references. Cf. CNG e385, (2016), 199 & CNG e591 (2025), 110. For a similar hemiobol cf. SNG Arikantürk 444. struck on a tight flan, otherwise, about very fine. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 21 | Auction date: 30 May 2026 |
| Lot number: 147 Price realized: 7,000 CHF (Approx. 8,918 USD / 7,657 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ATTICA. Athens. Circa 545-525/15 BC. Obol (Silver, 8 mm, 0.63 g, 12 h), 'Wappenmünzen' type. Facing gorgoneion. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square divided diagonally. Dewing 1571-2. HGC 4, 1655. Pozzi 1486 (this coin). Rosen 197. Seltman pl. IV, υ. SNG München 20. Svoronos pl. 1, 66-7. Rare. Beautifully toned, very well centered and with a fine pedigree. Slightly granular and with minor areas of horn silver, otherwise, nearly extremely fine. From the collection of the renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Leo Clodius-Tobler (1930-2025) and from the collection of Prof. S. Pozzi (1846-1918), Naville I, 4 April 1921, 1486 (acquired by H. Baldwin). This lot can be shipped to a US address. When delivered in Switzerland, this item is subjected to margin taxation in accordance with Art. 24a MWSTG (Swiss VAT Act), provided that the buyer is not registered for VAT. Estimate: 2000 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > obolos 43 | Auction date: 5 July 2026 |
| Lot number: 344 Price realized: 220 CHF (Approx. 274 USD / 240 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: MYSIA. Parion (?). 5th century BC. Hemiobol (Silver, 6 mm, 0.30 g). Facing gorgoneion with protruding tongue. Rev. Stellate pattern within incuse square. Klein -. Rosen -. SNG Paris -. Cf. Obolos 22, 6 March 2022, 287 (same obverse die). Very rare and seemingly unpublished. Porosity, otherwise, very fine. The attribution to Parion in Mysia is not firmly established, but seems logical based on the similarity of style to the well-known drachms from that city (cf. SNG Paris 1351-2). Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > obolos 43 | Auction date: 5 July 2026 |
| Lot number: 325 Price realized: 600 CHF (Approx. 748 USD / 653 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: MYSIA. Kyzikos. Circa 6th century BC. Obol (Silver, 9x6 mm, 0.53 g). Tunny fish swimming to right; below, countermark in the form of a quadripartite incuse square. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. SNG von Aulock 7328 var., and Von Fritze II 5 var. (fish swimming to left, no countermark). Obolos 38, 20 July 2025, 209 tunny fish swimming to left. Very rare and seemingly unpublished. Good very fine. The appearance of what is clearly a reverse type, the quadripartite incuse square, as a countermark is worthy of note. A quite similar countermark is found on 6th and early 5th century Aeginetan staters, placed there in the later 5th century by the Aeginetan authorities to guarantee them for continued use, after the period when Aegina had lost her autonomy to Athens. Whether the countermark on this Kyzikene obol is an official mark (from where?) or just an interesting private banker's mark is, at present, uncertain. Starting price: 100 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > obolos 43 | Auction date: 5 July 2026 |
| Lot number: 309 Price realized: 1,100 CHF (Approx. 1,371 USD / 1,198 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ARKADIA. Thaliades. early 5th century BC. Hemiobol (Silver, 8 mm, 0.37 g). Hermes, wearing a winged petasos and winged sandals, moving to right in the running/kneeling position, holding a kerykeion in his right hand and his pouch with his left. Rev. Rosette with a central pellet and eight petals; all within a circular incuse. BCD Peloponessos -. HGC 5 -. Traité -. For a depiction of a running Hermes from Pheneos, see BCD Peloponessos, 1598; and for another from Thaliades, see Nomos 25, 152. Apparently unique and unpublished. Clear and well-centerd. Minor roughness and obverse flatly struck, otherwise, good fine. The obverse of this highly interesting coin bears the type of a running Hermes, which is only found on the coinage of two cities in Arkadia: Pheneos and Thaliades. This depiction is quite uncommon, and usually only found on fractional coinage. Hermes is seen nude, but for his characteristic winged petasos and his winged sandals, (talaria or the πτερόεντα πέδιλα first mentioned by Hesiod). These accoutrements are firmly associated with Hermes, as is the faint but visible kerykeion, his winged staff, held with his right hand, and the money pouch held with his left. After all, Hermes was the god of trade and commerce. The reverse type is immediately reminiscent of the coinage of Erythrai in Ionia, with its reverse rosettes within incuse punches. However, the Erythrai reverses are all within incuse squares; needless-to-say, Hermes does not appear at Erythrai. This, at present unique coin, falls well into the Arkadian series that depicts Hermes and his acts. From Pheneos we have obverse types showing him running with a ram (on diobols) and resting (obols); both bear a kerykeion on their reverses. The known obols from Thaliades are very similar in style to the present hemiobol, albeit with more detailed reverses. Starting price: 200 CHF |  |
