Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 292. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOKRIS, Lokris Opuntia. Circa 382-336 BC. AR Stater (12.20 gm, 3h). Wreathed head of Persephone left wearing triple pendant earring and necklace / OPONTIW-N, Ajax advancing right, nude but for crested Corinthian helmet, holding sword in right hand, shield decorated with palm and griffin in left; star to lower right, broken spear on ground. BMC Central Greece pg. 4, 27 var. (no star); cf. SNG Copenhagen 43; Gulbenkian 491 (same dies). EF. ($5000)