CNG 90, Lot: 606. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Chios. Circa 435-425 BC. AR Stater (15mm, 7.80 g). Sphinx seated left; to left, grape bunch above amphora; all on convex circle / Quadripartite incuse square. Mavrogordato 26a; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen 1544; HGC 6, 1121. VF, toned. Well centered and struck for issue.

From the Deyo Collection. Ex C.E. Bullowa (3 December 1980), lot 30.