Watch List notes:

CRETE, Aptera. 2nd-1st centuries BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 2.74 g, 12h). Head of female right, wearing stephanos / Helmeted warrior advancing left, holding shield and spear; to left, NI above spear, KA below. Svoronos, Numismatique 19 (same dies as illustration); Joy –; Traeger –; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 8; Hunterian 3. VF, toned, struck with worn obverse die, some porosity. Extremely rare, none in CoinArchives.


From the collection of Alexandre Carathéodory Pasha (1833-1906).