432, Lot: 99. Estimate $300. Sold for $359. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Marion. Sasmas(?). Circa 470-450 BC. AR Stater (22.5mm, 11.06 g, 3h). Lion standing right, licking its right foreleg; Boiotian shield above, [floral pattern in exergue] / Phrixos standing left, clinging to the back of a ram advancing left; M (in Phoenician) below; all within incuse square. Cf. Zapiti & Michaelidou 1; cf. SNG Copenhagen 24; CNG 431, lot 249 (same dies); CNG E-430, lot 186 (same dies). Near Fine, struck from worn dies. Very rare, apparently unpublished in the standard references.