Triton XVI, Lot: 123. Estimate $200. Sold for $440. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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TAURIC CHERSONESOS, Chersonesos. Circa 350 BC. Æ (20mm, 6.23 g, 12h). Artemis Parthenos, holding torch in extended right hand, reins in left, driving quadriga right; ΛY above horses / Hoplite, nude but for conical helmet, crouching left, wearing round shield on left arm and holding spear in right hand; XEP below. Anokhin 662; Anokhin,
Khersonesa 37; SNG BM Black Sea 735 var. (letters on obv.); SNG Pushkin 620; SNG Stancomb –; Sutzu II –. VF, dark green-brown patina.
From the Alex Shubs Collection.