Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 652. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Amathos. Zotimos. AR Stater-Didrachm (6.32 gm). Lion reclining right, paw raised; eagle flying right above / Forepart of roaring lion right. Amandry, Amathonte 3 (D2/R2 - this coin); BMC Cyprus pg. 4, 10 (same obverse die); Traité pl. CXXXII, 21 (same reverse die); SNG Lockett 3062 (same reverse die); Weber 7686 (same obverse die). Good VF, light scratches in fields. Very rare. ($3000)

Ex John Ward Collection - Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sotheby's Zurich, 4-5 April 1973), lot 640.