Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XVII 28 Mar 2019
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Thracian Chersonesos, Kardia(?) AR Tetrobol. Miltiades II, circa 499-493 BC. Lion's head to left with open jaws and protruding tongue / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Leu 77, 145; Seltman, Athens, pl. XXIV, i; J.P. Six, Monnaies grecques, inédites et incertaines, in NC 1895, p. 186, 4 (= pl. VII, 4); SNG Copenhagen 344-345 (Asia Minor Uncertain). 2.78g, 13mm.
Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare.
From the Thrax Collection.
The present coin is one of very few known examples of this rare issue, attributed by Six and Seltman to Miltiades II who ruled from Kardia in the Thracian Chersonesos. Recent cataloguers have assigned the type to Macedonia on the basis that the weight standard favours Macedon, though this is far from certain and the type's weight standard is certainly consistent with the tetradrachm that is conventionally believed to have been issued by Miltiades at Kardia (see the preceding lot).
Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare.
From the Thrax Collection.
The present coin is one of very few known examples of this rare issue, attributed by Six and Seltman to Miltiades II who ruled from Kardia in the Thracian Chersonesos. Recent cataloguers have assigned the type to Macedonia on the basis that the weight standard favours Macedon, though this is far from certain and the type's weight standard is certainly consistent with the tetradrachm that is conventionally believed to have been issued by Miltiades at Kardia (see the preceding lot).