Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 475. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos, Kamiros. Circa 480-475 BC. AR Stater (11.81 gm, 3h). Fig leaf / KAM[I]-REW[N], legend in two lines divided by horizontal bar. SNG Helsinki -; Traité pl. XX, 8 = BMC Caria pg. 224, 12 (same reverse die); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Lockett 2935 = Pozzi 2671 (this coin); Boston MFA 2033 var. (ethnic). Good VF, attractively toned, choice flan. Very rare, only five specimens known of which two are in museums. ($5000)

Ex R.C. Lockett Collection (Glendining's, 21-23 February 1961), lot 2409; Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 14 March 1921), lot 2671.

For dating, see Kagan, "The Decadrachm Hoard," Coinage and Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires (BAR S343), pp. 25-26. This variety, the only coin of the type with a civic ethnic, is the only firm evidence linking this coinage to the city of Kamiros.