CNG 88, Lot: 272. Estimate $500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TAURIC CHERSONESOS, Chersonesos. Circa 350-300 BC. Æ (20mm, 6.63 g, 12h). Artemis Parthenos, holding torch and reins, driving fast quadriga right; E to upper right / Hoplite kneeling left, holding spear in right hand, shield on left arm. Anokhin, Khersonesa 43; SNG BM Black Sea 738 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 7 var. (control marks). Good VF, dark green surfaces with spots of red-brown, a hint of smoothing in fields. Exceptional for issue.