Probably the Finest Known

CNG 88, Lot: 256. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SIKYONIA, Sikyon. Circa 370-360/50 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 12.34 g, 6h). Chimaira standing left, raising forepaw; ΣE below, monogram in exergue / Dove flying left; ΣIBYP above; all within wreath. BCD Peloponnesos 221.1 (same dies); Traité III 778, pl. CCXX, 20 (same dies); HGC 5, 193. EF, bright surfaces, reverse struck a little off center. Rare, and probably the finest known of this issue.