Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 322. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Knidos. Circa 404-395 BC. AR Diobol (1.71 g, 11h). Forepart of roaring lion right / Head of Aphrodite right, hair in ampyx and sakkos; [K]NIΔION below; all in incuse square. Cf. SNG Keckman 163 (drachm); cf. Traité II 1623 and 1634 (drachms); cf. SNG Copenhagen 258 (drachm); cf. Winterthur 3415 (drachm). EF, toned. Unpublished denomination for issue.

Ex Tradart (8 November 1992), lot 111.

Previously, only rare drachms and a single obol were known for this issue (see Cahn, pp. 173-4 and n. 500; Ashton, Late p. 87 and n. 20).