Triton XVI, Lot: 131. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TAURIC CHERSONESOS, Chersonesos. Circa 300-290 BC. Æ (20mm, 6.21 g, 9h). Theochare[s], magistrate. Artemis Parthenos advancing left, preparing to strike with raised right hand a stag recumbent left, looking upward at her; XEP below; c/m to upper left: dolphin left in pelleted circle within incuse circle / Bull butting left on club left; in exergue, ΘEO[XAPE] above bow and quiver left. Anokhin 704 (cf. 702 for c/m); Anokhin, Khersonesa 81; SNG BM Black Sea – (cf. 768 for c/m); SNG Pushkin – (cf. 658 for c/m); SNG Stancomb – (cf. 478 for c/m); Sutzu II – (cf. 26 for c/m). Fine, brown surfaces, porous. Extremely rare issue by Thochares, approximately only 10 examples known, 8 of which are in museums.

From the Alex Shubs Collection.