Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 529. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOKRIS, Lokris Opuntia. Circa 380-338 BC. AR Stater (12.26 gm). Wreathed head of Persephone left wearing triple pendant earring / Ajax advancing right, nude but for crested helmet, brandishing sword and shield decorated with palmette and griffin; broken spear on ground. BMC Central Greece pg. 4, 27; SNG Copenhagen 43; Dewing 1477 (same dies). EF, lightly toned, slightly double struck, probably struck from recut obverse die. ($2000)

Ex New York Sale IV (17 January 2002), lot 153; Athena Fund (Sotheby's Zurich/Numismatic Fine Arts, 27-28 October 1993), lot 522; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection IV (Sotheby's, 19-20 June 1991), lot 256; Numismatic Fine Arts V (23-24 February 1978), lot 63; Numismatic Fine Arts II (25-26 March 1976), lot 136.