Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 291. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOKRIS, Lokris Opuntia. Circa 382-336 BC. AR Stater (12.20 gm, 11h). Wreathed head of Persephone right wearing ornate quadruple pendant earring and necklace / OPONTIWN, Ajax advancing right, nude but for crested Corinthian helmet, holding sword in right hand, shield decorated with griffin in left; spear below. BMC Central Greece pg. 4, 28; SNG Copenhagen 42 var. (spear broken); Gulbenkian 495 var. (legend; same obverse die). EF, obverse die break. ($5000)