Rare numismat with a unique and highly original obverse.
Greece
Macedonia, Pangaean District, Eion, Trihemiobol, 5th century BC
Obverse: goose standing right, head turned back, lizard above, H (faint) before goose's feet
Reverse: four-part incuse square
Weight 0.83 g
Eion, a Greek city on the border of Macedonia and Thrace, at the mouth of the Strymon River into the Aegean Sea. Captured by the Persians in 476 BC. The trihemiobol auctioned was beaten up to this point. Incusum square, characteristic for coins of the archaic period, an anvil imprint on which silver was placed during minting.
