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Triton XX, Lot: 305. Estimate $10000.
Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Knidos. Circa 395-380 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.22 g, 11h). Kleosthenes, magistrate. Head of Aphrodite left, hair in ampyx and sphendone, wearing single-pendant earring and pearl necklace; K-NI flanking neck; behind neck, prow left / Forepart of lion left; [K]ΛEOΣΘENH[Σ] below; all within incuse square. Hecatomnus 34 (A13/P32); cf. SNG Keckman 166; Karl 227–8 var. (magistrate); Gulbenkian 761 (same obv. die); Waddington 2311 (same dies). EF, attractive toning, light cleaning marks.


Ex Triton XVI (8 January 2013), lot 491; Peter Guber Collection (Manhattan Sale II, 4 January 2011), lot 63; Morton & Eden (13 December 2005), lot 335.