Exceptional for Issue – Ex Hunt Collection

Triton XVIII, Lot: 725. Estimate $7500. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Uncertain king. Circa 380-351/0 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 10.41 g, 1h). Head of marine deity right, wearing laurel wreath / Galley right; m a (in Phoenician) above, waves below; dotted line border above, curved solid border below; all within [incuse square]. Betlyon 10; Rouvier 2; HGC 10, 29 corr. (see below); SNG Copenhagen 10; BMC 18; Hunt IV 471 (this coin); Pozzi 3041–5. EF, toned. Unusually well struck for issue.

Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part IV, Sotheby’s, 19 June 1991), lot 471; Leu 28 (5 May 1981), lot 202.

In HGC 10, no. 28 (= Betlyon 9) is a tetrobol, while no. 29 (= Betlyon 10) is a stater with a frontal eye, not a profile eye (there is no distinction between the two eyes in Betlyon). Thus, the photo marked 28 is actually a photo of 29, while the photo marked 29 is actually an enlargement of a tetrobol, HGC 10, no. 40 (= Betlyon 11).