446, Lot: 134. Estimate $300. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Marion. Sasmas. Circa 470-450 BC. AR Stater (21.5mm, 11.83 g, 6h). Lion standing right, licking its right foreleg while scratching it with its back right paw; [Boiotian shield above, sa–sa–ma–o to-ka-ro-to-sa (“Sasmas, son of Doxandros” in Cypriot) across upper field]; floral pattern in exergue / Phrixos standing left, clinging to the back of a ram advancing left; [M (in Phoenician) below]; all within incuse square. Zapiti & Michaelidou 1 (same dies); Tziambazis 50; SNG Copenhagen 24. VF, toned, struck with worn dies. Very rare.