Ex Kunstfreund, Jameson, and Knowles Collections

CNG 100, Lot: 1305. Estimate $20000. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 412-404 BC. AR Stater (20.5mm, 8.67 g). Satyr advancing right, carrying off protesting nymph; A to right / Quadripartite incuse square. Le Rider, Thasiennes 6 (same obv. die as illustration); HPM pl. X, 27–8; HGC 6, 334; SNG Copenhagen Supp. 103; ACGC 521; Kraay & Hirmer 437; Kunstfreund 135 = Gillet 843 = Jameson 1067 (this coin). EF, deeply toned, a few minimal marks under tone. Fine classical style and great metal.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Leu 38 (13 May 1986), lot 53; Kunstfreund [Gillet] (Leu & Münzen und Medaillen, 28 May 1974), lot 135; Robert Jameson Collection, 1067; Sir James Knowles Collection (Christie, Manson & Woods, 25 May 1908), lot 127.