Of the Finest Classical Style – Ex Prospero and 1964 Vourla Hoard

CNG 100, Lot: 1451. Estimate $20000. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Klazomenai. Circa 380-360 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.18 g, 10h). Herakleides, magistrate. Head of Apollo facing slightly left, wearing laurel wreath / Swan standing left, preening its wing; KLAZOM-[ENAIO]N above, HP-[AKLEIDHS] below. Hurter 12 = Prospero 509 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 18; Boston MFA 1852 (same obv. die). VF, toned, light roughness. Of the finest classical style.

Ex Prospero Collection (New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012), lot 508 (hammer $90,000); Peus 329 (31 October 1990), lot 194; Numismatica Ars Classica 1 (29 March 1989), lot 198; Leu 33 (3 May 1983), lot 378; 1964 Vourla (Urla) Hoard (IGCH 1210).