CNG 112, Lot: 271. Estimate $750. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Chios. Circa 435-425 BC. AR Stater (13.5mm, 7.76 g). Sphinx seated left; to left, grape bunch above amphora; all set on circular convex field / Quadripartite incuse square. Mavrogordato 24; HGC 6, 1121; SNG Kayhan 618. Old cabinet tone. VF.

From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex N.T. Collection (Triton XIV, 4 January 2011), lot 314 (hammer $1200).