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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 228. Estimate $3000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. 
Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOKRIS, Lokris Opuntii. Circa 356-338 BC. AR Stater (12.19 g, 9h). Wreathed head of Persephone left, wearing triple pendant earring and necklace / Ajax, nude but for crested Corinthian helmet, advancing right, holding sword in right hand, shield decorated with floral symbol and griffin on left arm; OΠONTIΩ-N around, broken spear below, star to lower left. Wartenberg 6-7 (same rev. die); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Gulbenkian 491 (same rev. die). Good VF, gray toning with golden hues around the devices, slight die shift on reverse.


From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 373.