CNG 100, Lot: 1510. Estimate $7500. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 404-385 BC. AR Tetradrachm (21.5mm, 15.15 g, 11h). Chian standard. Head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose in profile, bud to left; POΔION above; T to left, Boeotian shield to right; all within incuse square. Hecatomnus 155a (A98/P104); Bérend, Tétradrachmes 86 (same obv. die); Ashton 50; MG 127 (same rev. die). Good VF, toned. Extremely rare issue, three noted by Ashton (Hecatomnus), no new specimens in CoinArchives.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 1 (29 March 1989), lot 214; Ponterio 25 (25 September 1986), lot 195; Schweizerische Kreditanstalt 4 (3 December 1985), lot 137; Leu 18 (5 May 1977), lot 205.