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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 954. Estimate $7500. 
Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. 
Sold For $35000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA. Chios. Circa 375-350 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.28 g, 12h). Hermophantos, magistrate. Sphinx seated left; to left, amphora surmounted by grape-bunch / Quadripartite incuse square, ERMOFANTOS across horizontal band; horizontal striations within each quarter. Baldwin, Chios 74; Pixodarus p. 213, 13 = Hurter, "The Pixodarus Hoard: A Summary," Essays Price, pl. 31, 16 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; SNG von Aulock -. Good VF, toned, excellent metal quality. Very rare, only one specimen recorded by Baldwin, and only two in the Pixodarus Hoard. ($7500)

Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XVI (2 December 1985), lot 215; Leu 33 (3 May 1983), lot 386; Pixodarus Hoard (CH 9, 421).