Hellenistic Masterpiece

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 332. Estimate $20000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 205-190 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.48 g, 12h). Onasandros, magistrate. Radiate head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose with bud to right; cap of the Dioskouroi to left, ONAΣANΔPOΣ above, P-O flanking stem. Ashton 264; SNG Keckman -; Karl -; SNG von Aulock 2803; SNG Copenhagen 757 (same obv. die); BMC -; SNG München -; Jameson 1556. Superb EF. Sharply struck from fresh dies of artistic style on a broad flan. The finest known.