Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 532. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1767. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Teos. Circa 510-475 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 12.19 g). Griffin seated right, raising forepaw; no control marks / Quadripartite incuse square. Balcer group I, dies A-/P17 (unlisted obv. die, P17 not listed in group I); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 2251. EF, lightly toned, some die wear.

Balcer’s reverse die 17 is only recorded in his group V staters, which have a swan as a subsidiary symbol on their obverse.