Triton XVI, Lot: 502. Estimate $10000. Sold for $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 125-88 BC. AV Quarter Stater (12mm, 2.10 g, 12h). Diogne(tos), magistrate. Head of Helios right, wearing radiate stephanos, single-pendant earring, and pearl necklace / Rose in profile, with bud to left; ΔIOΓNH above, P-O flanking, crested helmet to lower right. Jenkins, Rhodian 160; T. Hackens, “Trésor hellénistique trouvé à Délos 1964” in BCH 89 (1965), 46 (this coin); cf. SNG Keckman 672; cf. SNG von Aulock 2822 (same obv. die); cf. SNG Copenhagen 798 (same obv. die); HGC 6, 1416. Near EF, tiny die break on obverse, slight die shift on reverse, slight wave in flan. Well centered obverse. Very rare.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 190 (11 October 2010), lot 285; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 204 (October 1960), no. 15.