Watch List notes:

Pontus, Trapezus, silver trihemiobol, 4th century BC, bearded male head left, rev., ΤΡΑ, table; Ι and reversed Γ below, 1.50g, die axis 9.00, toned, extremely fine and very rare. This coin published: Jameson 2545. Other references: Waddington p. 148, 3, pl. XV, 15, probably same dies; cf. SNG von Aulock 6783 (as diobol). Provenance: R. Jameson Collection, Paris; Dr. Alfred E. Mirsky Collection gifted to Rockefeller University, New York in 1974; Gemini VII, New York, 9 January 2011, lot 437. Note: One of the earliest Greek settlements on the Black Sea, Trapezus (later Trebizond) was traditionally founded in 756 bc. It was, according to Xenophon, who visited in 400 bc, "a colony of the Sinopeans in the land of Colchis." The table on the reverse is a punning allusion to the town's name in Greek, and Barclay Head suggested that the name itself might possibly have been derived from the site's geographical position: "forming a sort of land table." Head also considered the autonomous coins of Trapezus to be of "extreme rarity" (NC, 1871, p. 167). (2500 - 3500 GBP)