Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3056. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Chersonesos. Circa 300-67 BC. AR Stater (11.05 g, 10h). Laureate head of Artemis right / Apollo seated right, holding kithara; thymiaterion to right. Svoronos, Numismatique 8 (same obv. die as illustration); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 1 (same obv. die); Le Rider, Crétoises, pl. XXXIV, 1 (same dies). VF, toned, areas of flat strike. Rare.

From the John A. Seeger Collection.