Ancient Coins

Greek Coinage, Mysia, Pitane, Hemiobol, 4th century, young male head right, rev. pentagram within shallow incuse square, 0.34g/6h (BMC –; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG v. Aulock –; SNG Tübingen –; SNG BnF –; SNG Turkey I, -–; Klein collection –; cf. Head, HN p. 537, Hauck & Aufhäuser sale 19, 2006, 76 and Classical Numismatic Group sale 84, 2010, 615). Very fine, a little porous, extremely rare, perhaps the third known example £100-150

Head HN cites a specimen in the BM which does not appear in the BMC volume on Mysia (1892) and was not in any of the published acquisitions before Head wrote Historia Nummorum in 1911