CYDONIA SILVER OBOL – VERY RARE TORTOISE ISSUE EX 1992 HIRSCH SALE – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK COIN (Inv. 18745)

$6,500.00

FPL V, 25 (18745). CRETE. CYDONIA. Ca. 450-330 BC.
Silver hemidrachm, 2.69 g, 14 mm.
Obv. Tortoise with segmented shell, A in left field, KA monogram in right field. Rev. Incuse square with skew design and crescent within.
E.S.G. Robinson, “Pseudaeginetica,” NC (1928), 8; SNG Copenhagen 402; Le Rider, pl. xxviii, 8; CNG Triton XXIII, 1/14/2020, lot 280 (same dies, realized $ 10,000 hammer); Nomos 16, 5/10/2018, lot 112 (same dies, realized 8,000 CHF hammer).
Ex Hirsch 175, 9/23/1992, lot 288.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, with attractive multicolored iridescence.