Published by Bérend

Triton XXII, Lot: 272. Estimate $15000. Sold for $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 404-385 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 15.23 g, 12h). Chian standard. Head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose in profile, with grain ear ‘budding’ to left and rosebud to right; POΔION above, small Δ to lower left; all within incuse square. Hecatomnus 58 (A38/P47) = Bérend, Tétradrachmes 53 (this coin); Ashton 31; HGC 6, 1418; Triton I, lot 544; Giessener Münzhandlung 24, lot 69 (same obv. die). Near EF, deeply toned. Well centered and struck. Very rare issue, only seven recorded, all from the Marmaris hoard.

From the Gasvoda Collection, purchased from Numismatica Ars Classica, January 2016. Ex LHS 95 (25 October 2005), lot 684; 1971 Marmaris Hoard (IGCH 1209).