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From the Otto Collection

CNG 85, Lot: 448. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $3200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 340-316 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 15.13 g, 12h). Head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose with bud to right; club to left, Φ to right; all within incuse square. Ashton 93; Hecatomnus 217a (A145/P151 – this coin); SNG Keckman -; Karl -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Delepierre 2749. VF, lightly toned, a few deposits. Extremely rare issue, only five examples known, two of which are in public collections (ANS and Paris).


Ex Münzhandlung Basel 10 (15 March 1938), lot 346; H. Otto Collection (A. Hess 207, 1 December 1931), lot 594.