An Offering of Rare Cycladic
Published in Sheedy

Triton XVIII, Lot: 550. Estimate $5000. Sold for $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYCLADES, Keos. Karthaia. Circa 510-490/80 BC. AR Stater (19.5mm, 11.92 g). Amphora; to right, dolphin ascending / Incuse square of ‘mill-sail’ design. Sheedy Series III, 19a (O4/R17) = Papageorgiadou-Banis Series II, 14 (this coin, illustrated in Sheedy); HGC 6, 540 (this coin illustrated); BMC 17 (same obv. die); Hermitage Sale II 1084. Good VF, toned, light porosity. Very rare.

From the RAJ Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVII (29 September 1993), lot 598; Coin Galleries (21 February 1990), lot 133.