Attractive Evagoras Stater

CNG 90, Lot: 654. Estimate $20000. Sold for $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Salamis. Evagoras I. Circa 411-374 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 10.93 g, 1h). Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin; Euagoro in Cypriot to right / Ram recumbent right; barley grain above, Cypriot a to right, basileus in Cypriot and EY around. Masson & Amandry II.B.a.1 (same obv. die); Tziambazis 113; Traité II 1156 = BMC 55 var. (letter to right on rev.); SNG Copenhagen 47 = Jameson 1629; ACGC 1083; Triton XV, lot 1271 (same obv. die). Near EF, toned.

Ex Patrick H.C. Tan Collection (Geminii VII, 9 January 2011), lot 562; Nomos 2 (18 May 2010), lot 128; Hess-Divo 307 (7 June 2007), lot 1296; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 518 (February 1989), lot 18.