Triton XVI, Lot: 162. Estimate $300. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TAURIC CHERSONESOS, Karkinitis. Circa 345-340 BC. Æ (17mm, 3.41 g, 1h). Herakl-, magistrate. Lion on the back of a bull right, biting into its neck; below, club right above HPAKΛ / Nike advancing right, holding [wreath] in extended right hand; KAPK to right. Anokhin 604; Medvedeva 2; Stolba 6; SNG BM Black Sea 693; SNG Pushkin –; SNG Stancomb –. VF, dark brown patina, edge split. Extremely rare, one of three known (the others in London [BM] and Qrim [Eupatoria Museum]).

From the Alex Shubs Collection.