CNG 108, Lot: 155. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Kydonia. Circa 320-270 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 10.89 g, 6h). Head of maenad right, wearing triple-pendant earring / Kydon standing left, stringing bow, in pellet border within shallow circular incuse. Svoronos, Numismatique 11 and pl. IX, 5 (same dies); Le Rider, Crétoises, p. 37, 283, and pl. IX, 21 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 2 (same dies). VF, toned, typical areas of flat strike, die break in field on obverse. Estimate reduced by consignor.

From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection. Ex 1953 Phaestus region Hoard (IGCH 152), no. 283.