KYRENAICA. Barce. Circa late 5th-early 4th Century BC. Obol (Silver, 10.5 mm, 0.72 g, 6 h). Silphium plant with two pairs of leaves and five umbels. Rev. ΒΑΡ Head of the youthful Karneios to right, his hair in large curls and with a ram's horn over his ear. Unpublished, the second example known, the other - struck from the same dies - being in the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris. Attractive and lightly toned. Very fine.
From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions, acquired privately from the stock of Münzen und Medaillen in Basel.
We would like to thank W. Fischer-Bossert, who is working on the corpus of Kyenaica, for the information about the other known example.