379, Lot: 147. Estimate $200. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Chios. Circa 435-425 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 7.80 g). Sphinx seated left; to left, grape bunch above amphora; all set on circular convex field / Quadripartite incuse square. Mavrogordato 22; HGC 6, 1121. VF, toned.

Ex Robert and Julius Diez Collection (Lanz 151, 30 June 2011), lot 158. Lot includes Diez ticket citing “Thieme ‘07 • 2415”. C.G. Thieme issued small lists in his own name, but none are recorded in the Fitzwilliam database for 1907. He also worked as an ‘expert’ for the firm Numismatischer Verein zu Dresden, but there are no sales recorded for 1907 in the Fitzwilliam, either..