Triton XVI, Lot: 509. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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DYNASTS of LYCIA. Kherei. Circa 410-390 BC. AR Stater (17mm, 8.58 g, 7h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with palmettes and spiral ornament on the bowl / Forepart of winged bull right; retrograde Lycian KHE-RẼ to right and above; all within incuse square. DNW A7, lot 1196; Hess-Divo 317, lot 258 = NAC P, lot 1564; NAC 25, lot 196; New York Sale XXV, lot 106; New York Sale XIV, lot 126; Triton VII, lot 285 (all from the same dies), otherwise unpublished. Good VF, toned, usual weak obverse die. Very rare, and unpublished in the standard references.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica O (13 May 2004), lot 1652.