CNG 112, Lot: 212. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SIKYONIA, Sikyon. Circa 431-400 BC. AR Stater (22.5mm, 11.60 g, 2h). Chimaera advancing right; retrograde ΣE below / Dove flying right; bow above tail feathers; all within olive wreath. Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 196/193 (for obv. die/rev. type); HGC 5, 188 corr. var. (incorrect photo and citation; ethnic). Deeply toned, a hint of porosity. Good VF.

From the Baldwin Maull Collection, purchased from Coin Galleries, 1957.