CNG 93, Lot: 482. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Idalion. Ki...(?). Circa 480-470 BC. AR Stater – Didrachm (22mm, 10.29 g, 12h). Sphinx seated right, raising left foreleg; basi in Cypriot to left, [unclear legend to right] / Lotus flower with two spiral tendrils below; all within peripheral incuse. Tziambazis 42; Traité II 1246; BMC 7 (same obv. die). VF, toned, rough surfaces. Very rare.

Ex Triton XV (3 January 2012), lot 1260 (sold for hammer $7000, but not paid); Spink 46 (9 October 1985), lot 126.