CNG 99, Lot: 320. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Paphos. Stasandros. Second half 5th century BC. AR Twenty-fourth Siglos – Obol (10mm, 0.57 g, 12h). Bull standing left; winged solar disc above / Eagle standing left; Sa Pa (in Cypriot = “Stasandros Basileus”) and small ankh to left, olive spray to right. Destrooper-Georgiades –; cf. Zapiti & Michaelidou 9 (third stater); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC p. lxix, pl. XXI, 8; cf. Künker 226, lot 535 (third stater); Künker 136, lot 689 corr. (king); Peus 368, lot 267. VF, toned. Exceptional for issue. Very rare.

See G. Hirsch 293, lot 2414 for a twelfth siglos of this type, but with the ringlet on the obverse.