Ex Newell and Evans Collections

Triton XX, Lot: 139. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AKARNANIA, Leukas. Circa 375-350 BC. AR Stater (24.5mm, 8.47 g, 9h). Pegasos flying left; Θ above, Λ below / Head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helmet; to right, kerykeion above Boeotian shield; ΛEY to left; all within concave circle. Pegasi 57; Imhoof-Blumer, Akarnaniens 16; BCD Akarnania –; HGC 4, 822; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC (Corinth) 37. EF, toned, minor edge split, slight die shift, die break on reverse. Well centered on a broad flan. Rare.

Ex Edward T. Newell Collection (Parke-Bernet Galleries, 16 October 1968), lot 134 (part of); Sir Arthur J. Evans Collection (Cahn 80, 27 February 1933), lot 294.