CNG 100, Lot: 1522. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYCIA, Phaselis. 4th century BC. AR Stater (20.5mm, 10.28 g, 5h). Prow of galley right, fighting platform decorated with facing gorgoneion; to right, cicada upward / Stern of galley right; above, Nike flying right, holding wreath in both hands, above retrograde ΦAΣ. Heipp-Tamer Series 6, unlisted variety; CNG 99, lot 281 (same dies). Near EF, lightly toned, die rust and slight die shift on obverse.

Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot, with wreath on pole on the reverse.