Ex Davis Collection

Triton XX, Lot: 140. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOKRIS, Lokri Opuntii. Circa 360-350 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 12.18 g, 11h). Head of Persephone left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace, hair held by dotted band at nape of neck / Ajax, nude but for crested Corinthian helmet, holding sword in right hand, shield decorated with palmette and griffin on left arm, advancing right on rocks; OΠONTIΩN to left; broken spear below. H&D Group 17, 134f (O15A/R47) = Davis 131 (this coin); BCD Lokris 456.5; HGC 4, 990; SNG Copenhagen 44; Athena Fund II 522 = Hunt Sale IV 256; Dewing 1477 (all from the same dies). EF, toned, slight die shift on reverse.

Ex Texas Numismatic Association 3 (12 January 1985), lot 86; Norman Davis Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts XI, 8 December 1982), lot 114.