437, Lot: 160. Estimate $200. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Marion. Sasmai/Sasamarios. Circa 470-450 BC. AR Stater (20.5mm, 11.15 g, 4h). Lion standing right, licking its right foreleg; Boiotian shield above, floral pattern in exergue / Phrixos standing left, clinging to the back of a ram standing left; Boiotian shield below; all within incuse square. Zapiti & Michaelidou 1; Tziambazis 50; BMC p. 71, 1 = Traité II 1366; SNG Copenhagen 24; E.S.G. Robinson, “British Museum Acquisitions for 1930-31” in NC 1932, 10; ACGC 1108 = E.S.G. Robinson, “British Museum Acquisitions for the Years 1933-1934” in NC 1936, 45; Kunstfreund 168; Triton XVII, lot 356 (all from the same dies). Fine, struck from worn dies, double struck on reverse. Very rare.