Triton XV, Lot: 1247. Estimate $7500. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Karpathos. Poseidion. Circa 500 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 13.60 g). Two large dolphins, the top to left, bottom to right, above small dolphin right; floral ornament in upper corners; all within pelleted and linear square / Incuse square bisected by thick line. Cahn, Poseidion, pl. II, 5 (same obv. die, but after inscription added to obv.); Hirsch 1545 (same rev. punch); SNG Keckman 283 var. (inscription on obv.); SNG von Aulock 2743; SNG Copenhagen –; Weber 6618; Jameson 1542; HGC 6, 1352. Good VF, toned, some find patina, slight roughness. Rare.