Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 386. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Kos. Circa 345-340 BC. AR Didrachm (6.88 g, 12h). Biton, magistrate. Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Veiled female head left; BITΩN to right. Pixodarus p. 236, 32 (A4/P19); SNG von Aulock 24 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 621; BMC 22 (same dies). Good VF, dark iridescent toning, light die rust on obverse.