CNG 93, Lot: 324. Estimate $15000. Sold for $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARGOLIS, Argos. Circa 370-350 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 12.01 g, 9h). Head of Hera right, wearing polos ornamented with three palmettes and pearl necklace / Two dolphins, one above the other, swimming in counterclockwise circle; grape bunch on vine tendril in center; [A]PΓE-IΩN around. BCD Peloponnesos 1065 (same rev. die); SNG Copenhagen 23-4 var. (symbol in center of rev.); BMC 38; Gulbenkian 530 = Jameson 2512 (same rev. die). Near EF, toned, very light porosity, minor double strike on reverse. Extremely rare, and exceptional for issue.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 90 (23 May 2012), lot 555; Peter Guber Collection (Manhattan Sale II, 4 January 2011), lot 52.