Triton XVIII, Lot: 548. Estimate $5000. Sold for $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Knossos. Circa 360-320 BC. AR Stater (24.5mm, 10.83 g). Head of Demeter right, wearing wreath of grain ears, single-pendant earring, and necklace; KN below neck / Cruciform labyrinth with five pellets in center; circular incuses in outer quarters. Svoronos, Numismatique 46 var. (no incuses on rev. [note: same obv. die as Sv. 43 and 47–8]); Le Rider, Crétoises pl. VII, 4–5 var. (square incuses on rev.; same obv. die); SNG Delepierre 2340 (same obv. die); Rhousopoulos 2922 var. (square incuses on rev.; same obv. die); Weber 4413 var. (no incuses on rev.; same obv. die). Good VF, toned, obverse struck a little softly, die break on reverse. Well struck for issue. Rare and exceptional for series.

Ex Hesperia Art Bulletin III (undated [c. 1958]), no. 49; Coin Galleries (9 March 1956,) lot 1594.