445, Lot: 859. Estimate $150. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Kydonia. Circa 320-270 BC. Electrotype “Stater” (23.5mm, 10.47 g, 2h). Unsigned British Museum electrotype by Robert Ready or his sons. Young head left, wearing ivy wreath / Hound left, head right, suckling infant. Head, Guide, Period III.B., –; for prototype: cf. BMC p. 28, 7. As made.

From the Johnson Family Collection, purchased from William Koonce, 2 May 1969.