Triton XVI, Lot: 125. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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TAURIC CHERSONESOS, Chersonesos. Circa 350-330 BC. Æ (20mm, 6.78 g, 7h). Artemis Parthenos, holding torch in extended right hand, reins in left, driving quadriga right; E 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 671; Anokhin,
Khersonesa 43; SNG BM Black Sea 738; SNG Pushkin –; SNG Stancomb 465–6 var. (same); Sutzu II –; DCA 994. Near VF, dark green patina with patches of brown.
From the Alex Shubs Collection.