Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 488. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $1650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Uncertain. Circa 550-500 BC. EL 1/12 Stater (1.29 gm). Forepart of roaring lion right / Quadripartite incuse square. SNG Kayhan -; Rosen -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; Traité -. EF. Rare. ($500)

This is a difficult coin to identify with certainty, but the lion resembles some of those found on early silver fractions attributed to Caria; the lion was later adopted as the symbol of the Hekatomnid dynasts