CNG 100, Lot: 1503. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Kalymna. Circa 260/50-205 BC. AR Didrachm (19mm, 6.25 g, 7h). Male head right, wearing crested Attic helmet / Kithara with tiny I within top inner curves; KAΛYMNION below; all within dotted square. Höghammar Type 1, dies 1/1; HGC 6, 1283; SNG von Aulock 2741; SNG Copenhagen 602; Boston MFA 2009; Karl 346; Jameson 1541; McClean 8527 (all from the same dies). EF, deeply toned, trace find patina. Rare this nice.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, February 1988.