Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 217. Estimate $20000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $24000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYCLADES, Naxos. Circa 520-490 BC. AR Stater (12.35 gm). Kantharos, bunch of grapes hanging from each handle, ivy leaf above / Quadripartite incuse punch. Nicolet-Pierre, "Naxo (Cyclades) Archaique: Monnaie et Histoire. La Frappe des Canthares, de la Fin du VI Siécle," in QT 1997, 21 (D10/R19) = Kunstfreund 18 (this coin); BMC Crete pg. 110, 1-3; SNG Copenhagen 702; Dewing 1955; Kraay & Hirmer 523. Attractively toned EF, with slight traces of irridescent blue on a choice flan in high relief. Rare. ($20,000)

Ex Kunstfreund Collection (Leu & Münzen und Medaillen, 28 May 1974), lot 18.