Ex Erich Karl Collection

CNG 84, Lot: 653. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 404-385 BC. AR Tetradrachm (21mm, 15.05 g, 12h). Head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose with bud to right; POΔION above, phiale and Φ to left; all within incuse square. Hecatomnus 141 (A86/P96) = Karl 397 (this coin); Bérend -; Ashton 46; SNG Keckman -; SNG Copenhagen -; Gulbenkian 769 = Pozzi 2682. Good VF, toned, light die rust. Very rare.

Ex Erich Karl Collection (Lanz 131, 27 November 2006), lot 397; Frankfurter Münzhandlung 132 (30 May 1989), Lot 58; Schweizerischer Bankverein 6 (19 April 1980), lot 72; Numismatic Fine Arts [I] (20 March 1975), lot 176; Hecatomnus Hoard (CH V, 17; CH VIII, 96; and CH IX, 387).