Two Portraits of Perikles

CNG 102, Lot: 552. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DYNASTS of LYCIA. Perikles. Circa 380-360 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 9.50 g, 6h). Antipellos (Kas) mint. Struck circa 380-375 BC. Head of Perikles facing slightly left, wearing laurel wreath, drapery around neck; to right, dolphin downward / Warrior, nude but for crested Corinthian helmet, in fighting attitude right, holding sword aloft in right hand, shield on left arm; PERIKLE (in Lycian) and triskeles to left, VEHNTEZE ([= Antiphellos] in Lycian) to right; all within shallow incuse square. Mildenberg, Mithrapata 20 (A14/R15); Podalia 390-6 (A1/P2); Falghera –; SNG Ashmolean 1206 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG von Aulock 4251 (same dies); Boston MFA Supp. 234 (same dies). EF, lightly toned, struck with worn reverse die. Well centered.

From the M. A. Armstrong Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 90260 (November 1995).