Ex BCD, Ward, and Evans Collections
CNG 84, Lot: 488. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SIKYONIA, Sikyon. Circa 370-360/50 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 11.81 g, 2h). Chimaera standing left, raising forepaw; Σ-E above and below forepaws; on ground line, archer crouching left, drawing bow / Dove flying left; ΠA above tail; all within wreath. BCD Peloponnesos 213 (same dies); Ward 526 (this coin). VF, toned, minor roughness, small pit in field on obverse. Rare.
Ex BCD Collection (not in previous sales); Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sotheby's - Zurich, 4 April 1973), lot 435; John Ward Collection; Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (20 January 1898 [Arthur Evans]), lot 121.