Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 393. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Chios. Circa 380-350 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.01 g, 6h). Kallikles, magistrate. Sphinx seated left; to left, grape bunch above amphora / Quadripartite incuse square with thick dividing lines, magistrate’s name across horizontal line; vertical striations in quarters. Mavrogordato 48; Baldwin, Chios 77; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 31. Good VF, dark find patina, slight die shift. Very rare.

Ex Hauck & Aufhäuser 18 (5 October 2004), lot 243.