Ex Brand and Diaz Ordoñes

CNG 100, Lot: 105. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Salamis. Nikokles. Circa 374-361 BC. AV Twelfth Stater (7.5mm, 0.69 g, 3h). Draped bust of Aphrodite left, wearing ornamented stephanos, earring, and necklace / Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with wreath, round earring, and necklace. Markou, L'or 317 (D3/R3 – this coin, illustrated); Zapiti & Michaelidou 17; Tziambazis 121; SNG Copenhagen 51; BMC 62–3; Gulbenkian 812; Traité II 1162, pl. CXXVIII, 3 = de Luynes 2939 (same obv. die). EF, lightly toned, compact flan.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Triton XV (3 January 2012), lot 1273; Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 3, Sotheby's, 9 June 1983), lot 138; Augustin Diaz Ordoñes Collection (J. Schulman FPL LXII, 1915), no. 338.