Exceptional Argos Stater

CNG 90, Lot: 555. Estimate $20000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARGOLIS, Argos. Circa 370-350 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 12.01 g, 9h). Head of Hera right, wearing polos ornamented with three palmettes and pearl necklace / Two dolphins, one above the other, swimming in counterclockwise circle; grape bunch on vine tendril in center; [A]PΓE-IΩN around. BCD Peloponnesos 1065 (same rev. die); SNG Copenhagen 23-4 var. (symbol in center of rev.); BMC 38; Gulbenkian 530 = Jameson 2512 (same rev. die). Near EF, toned, very light porosity, minor double strike on reverse. Extremely rare, and exceptional for issue.

Ex Peter Guber Collection (Manhattan Sale II, 4 January 2011), lot 52.