Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1308. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $365. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Chios. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Time of Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161. Æ Diassarion (10.92 g, 6h). Q. Valerius Primus, archon for the second time. Sphinx seated left, front paw set on prow of galley / Nude laureate male standing facing, leaning on staff (or spear); helmet to left at feet, star to right. Mavrogordato 120 var. (sphinx right); BMC 120 var. (same); SNG Copenhagen -. VF, brown surfaces, minor roughness. Rare.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (not in Peus catalog).