Ex BCD and Lockett Collections

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 682. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SIKYONIA, Sikyon. Circa 370-360/40 BC. AR Stater (11.95 g, 10h). Chimaera standing left; below, laureate head of Apollo left / Dove flying left; A/Γ behind tail feathers; all within wreath. BCD Peloponnesos 214 = SNG Lockett 2329 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen -. EF, toned, slight surface roughness. Very rare.

From Collection C.P.A. Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 214; Münzen und Medaillen 72 (6 October 1987), lot 602; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (27 May 1959), lot 1910.