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CNG 102, Lot: 272. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOKRIS, Lokri Opuntii. Circa 350-340 BC. AR Stater (21.5mm, 12.17 g, 12h). Head of Persephone left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace / Ajax, nude but for crested Corinthian helmet, holding sword in right hand, shield decorated with coiled serpent on left arm, advancing right on rocks; OΠON-T[IΩN] flanking; broken spear and Boeotian helmet below. H&D Group 20, 142c (O20/R3) = BCD Lokris 458.1 (this coin); HGC 4, 989. Near EF, toned.


From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection. Ex Ed Waddell Inventory 48738 (December 2010); BCD Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 55, 8 October 2010), lot 458.1.