397, Lot: 195. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Salamis. Uncertain kings. Circa 500-480 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 10.87 g, 12h). Ram recumbent left; pellet-in-crescent above, pa-u/si-o-se (in Cypriot) around / Ankh-like symbol, pa (in Cypriot) within ring; si-se-pi-o-le (in Cypriot) clockwise around from upper left; all within incuse square. Cf. Zapiti & Michaelidou 13 (Phausis?); Tziambazis –; SNG Copenhagen –; Gorny & Mosch 185, lot 178 (same dies). VF, toned, struck from worn obverse die, double struck on reverse. Rare.

From the DS Collection, purchased from Harlan J. Berk, 10 June 2010.