Sale: Nomos 6, Lot: 93. Estimate CHF12500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 May 2012.  Sold For CHF10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Samos. Circa 408/4-380/66 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 15.05 g 1), circa 390. Lion’s mask facing. Rev. ΗΓΗΣΙΑΝΑΞ / ΣΑ Forepart of an ox to right, wearing an ornamental collar and with dotted truncation; to left olive branch; below right, monogram within circle. Barron 120a (O54/R117, this coin). Attractive, toned and well struck. Extremely fine.

From the collections of the Rockefeller University, New York and Dr. A. Mirsky, Gemini VII, 9 January 2011, 509 and of F. von Schennis, Hirsch XXXIII, 17 November 1913, 850.