Triton XVIII, Lot: 44. Estimate $7500. Sold for $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DYNASTS of LYCIA. Kherei. Circa 410-390 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 8.46 g, 12h). Uncertain mint. Head of Athena left, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with spiral palmette and three olive leaves / Bearded head right, wearing kyrbasia; KHERÊI (in Lycian) behind; all within incuse square. Mørkholm & Zahle II 55 (same dies); Falghera –; Reuter 82 = Sunrise 80 (this coin); cf. SNG Copenhagen Supp. 452; SNG von Aulock –. EF, toned, softly struck in center, slight granularity, edge splits. Very rare.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Reuter Collection (Peus 360, 27 April 1999), lot 82; Giessener Münzhandlung 52 (6 November 1990), lot 336.