382, Lot: 76. Estimate $750. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SIKYONIA, Sikyon. Circa 370-360/50 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 11.82 g, 3h). Chimaera standing right, raising forepaw; Σ-E above and below forepaws; on ground line, archer crouching right, drawing bow / Dove flying left; ΠA above tail; all within wreath. BCD Peloponnesos 221.3 (this coin); HGC 5, 196 (this coin illustrated). VF, toned, light roughness, obverse struck off center. Rare variety with the chimaera and archer facing right.
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Peus 396 (5 November 2008), lot 282; BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 221.3.