Sale: Nomos 7, Lot: 136. Estimate CHF12500.  Closing Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2013.  Sold For CHF11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Samos. Circa 408/4-380/66 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 15.05 g 1), circa 390. Lion’s mask facing. Rev. ΗΓΗΣΙΑΝΑΞ / ΣΑ Forepart of an ox to right, wearing an ornamental collar and with a dotted truncation; to left olive branch; below right, monogram within circle. Barron 120a (O54/R117, this coin). Attractive, toned and well struck. Some uncleaned horn silver adhering to the obverse, otherwise, extremely fine.

Ex Nomos 6, 8 May 2012, 93 and from the collections of the Rockefeller University, New York and Dr. A. Mirsky, Gemini VII, 9 January 2011, 509 and of F. von Schennis, Hirsch XXXIII, 17 November 1913, 850.