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Triton XVI, Lot: 403. Estimate $7500.
Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Itanos. Circa 380-350 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 11.00 g). Marine deity right, with human head and torso and dolphin-like tail, holding a transverse trident in right hand, and a fish by its tail in left / Star with eight rays within linear square border; all within incuse square. Svoronos, Numismatique 7 (same obv. die as no. 4 - pl. XVIII, 24); Le Rider, Crétoises, pl. VIII, 14 (same dies); cf. SNG Copenhagen 470–1 (fractions); Dewing 2037. Near EF, toned, light cleaning marks, struck from worn obverse die. Very rare.


Ex Gemini III (9 January 2007), lot 162; Hagen Tronnier Collection (Künker 94, 27 September 2004), lot 898; Münzen und Medaillen AG 66 (23 October 1984), lot 138; Hess-Leu 45 (12 May 1970), lot 220.