Triton XVIII, Lot: 549. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Lyttos. Circa 320-270 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 10.17 g, 11h). Eagle flying left / Head of boar right within pelleted square border. Svoronos, Numismatique 57; Le Rider, Crétoises –; SNG Copenhagen 492 (same obv. die); Dewing 2057 (same dies). VF, toned, area of flat strike. Very rare late anepigraphic stater.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from C. H. Wolfe, 15 November 1989.