Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 712. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA. Chios. Circa 2nd century BC. AR Drachm (4.11 gm). Leomedon, magistrate. Sphinx seated left; grapes before / Amphora; prow to left, LEWMEDWN to right; all within laurel wreath. BMC Ionia -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; Ward 681 = Mavrogordato 61, pl. vi, 1 (this coin). VF, toned, small flan crack. ($750)

From the Tony Hardy Collection. Ex John Ward Collection - Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sotheby's, Zurich, 4-5 April 1973), lot 579.