Triton XVI, Lot: 134. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TAURIC CHERSONESOS, Chersonesos. Circa 210-200 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 3.79 g, 12h). Umnou–, magistrate. Head of Artemis Parthenos right, wearing laurel wreath, bow and quiver behind neck / Artemis Parthenos advancing left, preparing to strike with raised right hand a stag recumbent left, looking upward at her; XEP to right, YMNOY in exergue. Anokhin 760; Anokhin, Khersonesa 133; SNG BM Black Sea 795; SNG Pushkin –; SNG Stancomb 484 var. (magisgtrate); Sutzu II –. Near VF, dark find patina, light deposits on reverse. Rare.

From the Alex Shubs Collection.