Sale: Nomos 6, Lot: 82. Estimate CHF12000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 May 2012.  Sold For CHF14500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYCLADES, Paros. Late 3rd-mid 2nd century BC. Didrachm (Silver, 7.67 g 1). Female head to right (Artemis?), her hair bound with a taenia that passes several times around her head. Rev. ΠΡΑΞΟΣ / ΠΑΡΙ Male goat standing right. Boutin Collection (Monnaies et Médailles 76, 1991) 789. SNG Lockett 2629 (this coin). Winterthur 2316. Rare. Attractively toned and unusually well preserved. Extremely fine.

From the Star Collection, LHS 102, 29 April 2008, 248, ex Weill, 22 October 2004, 110, and from the collection of R. C. Lockett, IX, Glendining & Co., 27 May 1959, 2097.