CNG 103, Lot: 303. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLANDS off CARIA, Kalymna. Circa 260/50-205 BC. AR Didrachm (19mm, 6.46 g, 7h). Male head right, wearing crested Attic helmet / Kithara; [K]AΛYMNION below; all within dotted square. Höghammar Type 2, dies 1/2, no. 62 (this coin); HGC 6, 1283; SNG Kayhan 902; SNG Keckman 282; BMC 4 and 7–8; Pozzi 2642 (all from the same dies). Good VF, even deep red-brown find patina, faint marks. Well centered. Very rare in this condition.
Ex Robert Schonwalter Collection (Triton V, 16 January 2002), lot 1448.