Ex Brand and Lambros Collections

CNG 85, Lot: 454. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 125-88 BC. AV Quarter Stater (13mm, 2.14 g, 12h). Dama(s), magistrate. Radiate head of Helios right / Rose with bud to right; ΔAMA above, P-O flanking, trident to lower left. Jenkins, Rhodian 205; cf. SNG Keckman 672; SNG Copenhagen -; T. Hackens, “Trésor hellénistique trouvé à Délos 1964” in BCH 89 (1965), 59. VF, die flaw on obverse. Well centered reverse. Very rare.

Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 3, Sotheby's, 9 June 1983), lot 129; J.-P. Lambros Collection (Hirsch XXIX, 9 November 1910), lot 777.