Triton XX, Lot: 177. Estimate $4000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SIKYONIA, Sikyon. Circa 335-330 BC. AR Stater (23.5mm, 12.22 g, 1h). Chimaera standing left, raising left forepaw; wreath above, ΣE below / Dove flying left; A before; all within wreath. BCD Peloponnesos 220 (this coin); HGC 5, 201; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC –; Pozzi 1793 (same obv. die); Traité III 775, pl. CCXX, 11. EF, attractive even gray tone with light iridescence around the devices, a little die rust on obverse.
Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 220; Sotheby’s (27 March 1987), lot 407.