CNG 85, Lot: 395. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. 5th-4th centuries BC. EL Stater (16mm, 16.04 g). Nereid, holding wreath and shield, riding dolphin left; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 159; SNG France 307; SNG von Aulock -. Near VF, off center strike. Very rare.

This type is probably depicting one of the Nerieds delivering the arms to Achilles (for a similar scene on a contemporary vase, see J. Paul Getty Museum, 86.AE.611, an Apulian Red Figure Pelike by the Near the Gravina Painter).