CNG 100, Lot: 1499. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Knidos. Circa 465-449 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 5.94 g, 9h). Forepart of lion right / Head of Aphrodite right, wearing tainia, within incuse square. Cahn 71 (V36/R52); SNG Copenhagen 242; BMC 15; Jameson 2299; Weber 6472 (all from the same dies). Good VF, toned, traces of find patina.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from D. Berend, Paris, April 1985.