Triton XVI, Lot: 122. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TAURIC CHERSONESOS, Chersonesos. Circa 350 BC. Æ (19mm, 6.30 g, 12h). Artemis Parthenos, holding torch in extended right hand, reins in left, driving quadriga right / Hoplite, nude but for conical helmet, crouching left, wearing round shield on left arm and holding spear in right hand; XEP below. Anokhin 658; Anokhin, Khersonesa 35; SNG BM Black Sea 734; SNG Pushkin 617–9; SNG Stancomb 464; Sutzu II –. VF, dark brown patina, a few tiny pits.

From the Alex Shubs Collection.

According to Anokhin, this early Chariot-Hoplite type is connected to the victory of Chersonesos over Olbia, after their war in the mid 4th century.