★ Extremely rare Histiaia Octobol! ★

EUBOIA. Histiaia. Circa 350-300 BC (BCD 361. Octobol (Silver, 19.5 mm, 5.62 g, 6 h). Head of the nymph Histiaia to right, her hair rolled and bound up with a vine wreath, wearing an earring, with a pendant in the form of a vine leaf, and a pearl necklace. Rev. ΙΣΤΙA-ΙEΩΝ The nymph Histiaia seated right on the stern of a galley, holding stylis with her left hand and resting her right on the deck behind her; along the outside of her right arm, in small letters, ΙΣΤΙAIA. BCD Euboia 361. Newell, Octobols, pl. I, 2. Traité II, 2, 201 and pl. CXCVIII, 27. Extremely rare, the fourth known example. Toned and clear. Nearly very fine.

From a German collection, acquired in Munich in the early 1990s.