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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewStyleKing, post: 7468912, member: 106483&quot;][ATTACH=full]1293493[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Athens New Style Tetradrachm c160/59 BC</b></p><p>Obv: Athena right in tri-form helmet</p><p>Thompson issue 5 16.97 Gm 32 mm</p><p>Thompson Catalogue: Obs:New : Rev:New</p><p>Rev:ΑΘΕ ethnic</p><p>Owl standing on amphora</p><p>2 Magistrates monograms beside each a single palm.</p><p>Symbol: 2 Palms</p><p>All surrounded by an olive wreath</p><p><br /></p><p>It hammered for nearly 4X estimate but I</p><p>had to have it, so adding juice etc..5X ! I have never paid as much for a coin before and not likely to again.</p><p>Roma noted extremely rare and no other examples on Coinarchives. True, but I have done a little paper on Some New Coin Types in the Early NewStyle issues and Thompson #5, 2 Palms was known having 1 example when Thompson published NSSCA in 1961.</p><p>Almost immediately another was discovered in the Kilkis Hoard in 1962. Same obverse new reverse.</p><p>The decades go by and then another is found in the Demetrios l Hoard in 2003 with a New Obverse and a New Reverse featuring only 1 Palm!</p><p>And then in 2019 one surfaced in a Roma auction that had been languishing in an unknown (British?) collection which I bought. Yet another another New Obverse and New Reverse!</p><p>So this rare issue is much bigger than suspected, a taster of this happened in a G&amp;M auction in 2012 when an egregious IMITATION appeared. So it must have been common enough for someone to attempt to copy it.</p><p>Now that is research which is what I enjoy most.</p><p>The coin is unique and not unique.</p><p>And the only one (?) in private hands....mine![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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