Sale: Nomos 2, Lot: 117. Estimate CHF27500.  Closing Date: Monday, 17 May 2010.  Sold For CHF24000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Uncertain mint. Circa 520 BC. Stater (Silver, 11.95 g). Forepart of horse to left. Rev. Two incuse squares: the larger ornamented with palmettes and flowers, the smaller with a diagonal cross. ACGC 86. BMC (Troas) 5-8 (Kyme). Jameson 2235 = Weber 5475 (this coin). Traité I, 1, 537 = pl. XIII, 24. Very rare. Attractively toned as found, extremely fine.

Ex Bank Leu 45, 26 May 1988, 223, Hess-Leu 15, 7 April 1960, 205, and from the collections of R. Jameson, Sir H. Weber and General W. Yorke Moore, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1 March 1889, 172.