CNG 100, Lot: 1472. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Teos. Circa 450-425 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 11.98 g). Griffin seated right, raising forepaw; grape bunch and leaf to lower right / Quadripartite incuse square. Matzke Group Cb1; Balcer Group LIII, 102 (dies A102/P134); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG von Aulock –; Jameson 1517 (same dies). Good VF, toned, obverse a little off center. Rare.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, January 1986.