Sale: Nomos 5, Lot: 190. Estimate CHF2750.  Closing Date: Monday, 24 October 2011.  Sold For CHF2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Knidos. Circa 411-405/4 BC. Drachm (Silver, 6.14 g 3). Forepart of lion to right, with open jaws and outstretched right paw. Rev. Α Head of Aphrodite to right, her hair bound in a sphendone ornamented with ivy leaves, wearing a plain necklace and with a plain truncation; all within incuse square. Cahn 93. De Luÿnes 2704 and SNG Copenhagen 252 (same dies. Toned and attractive. Slightly lightly struck and with a minor die break on the reverse, otherwise, extremely fine.

Ex Triton XIII, 5 January 2010, 202.