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Triton XVI, Lot: 498. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 408/7-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (21mm, 14.87 g, 10h). Head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose in profile, with bud to right; [POΔI]O[N] above; to left, sphinx seated left; all within incuse square. Hecatomnus 42 (A27/P36) = Bérend, Tétradrachmes 25 (same dies); Ashton 4; SNG Keckman –; Karl –; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 11; HGC 6, 1417. Good VF, toned, granular surfaces. Very rare issue, only 16 examples noted by Ashton (Hecatomnus).


Ex Berk BBS 140 (27 October 2004), lot 166.