Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 315. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Samos. Circa 453/2-440/39 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.01 g, 6h). Lion scalp facing / Forepart of ox right; olive branch to left, ΣA above, E (date) below; all within incuse square. Barron 75 (A35/P75); SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen 1681 (same obv. die); BMC 93 (same dies); Traité II 1799 (same obv. die). Good VF, lightly toned.

Ex Hauck & Aufhäuser 19 (21 March 2006), lot 150; Giessener Münzhandlung 69 (18 November 1994), lot 361.