357, Lot: 595. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELECTROTYPE, ISLANDS OFF CARIA. Kos. Circa 480-475 BC. “AR 3 Sigloi” (21mm, 13.15 g, 5h). British Museum electrotype by Robert Ready or his sons. Diskobolos, nude, hurling diskos right; tripod to left / Crab in dotted square within incuse square. Head, Guide, Period II.A., 36. For prototype, cf. Kraay & Hirmer pl. 188, 639 for similar. As made, toned.

In 1880, when Barclay Head wrote his A Guide to the Select Greek and Roman Coins Exhibited in Electrotype, the obverse of this coin was described as “Apollo beating the cymbal, and dancing before tripod.”