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Very rare Archaic Carian Silver Stater, ca. 500-490 BC

1098

Caria, Uncertain mint. Silver Stater (13.96 g), ca. 500-490 BC. Two dolphins leaping right; between, pellet; all

within linear square border. Rev. Two rectangular incuses. (SNG von Aulock 2744 (same die and punches,

no pellet); CNG 96, lot 500 (same)).

Extremely rare with both dolphins to right. One of just three known, the other two

lacking the pellet on the obverse.

Well struck and bold. Choice very fine.

$ 5,000

ex CNG 99 (13 May 2015), lot 269.

Like several other early anepigraphic staters featuring a pair of dolphins, this Extremely rare and attractive archaic coin has often

been attributed to the obscure city of Poseidion on the island of Karpathos. However, more recent discoveries have shown that this

attribution was incorrect and have raised doubts that the city ever even existed! Until new information becomes available we must

content ourselves with the present broad attribution to the environs of Caria based on similarities between the reverse punches on

this coin and those found on coins from the Carian island of Rhodos.

1099

Islands off Caria, Kos. Silver Didrachm (6.55 g), ca. 345-340 NC. Age…, magistrate. Head of Herakles

right, wearing lion’s skin headdress. Rev.

]ION

below, veiled head of Demeter left; in right field,

magistrate’s name:

AGH

(erased). (Pixodarus Hoard 6 (A2/P3); SNG Keckman 287 (same dies); HGC 6,

1305). Toned. Some smoothing in the field of the reverse. Very fine.

$ 900

1100

Caria, Knidos. Silver Drachm (6.09 g), ca. 520-495 BC. Head of a roaring lion right, paw outstretched. Rev.

K?-I, head of Aphrodite right, wearing sakkos; all within incuse square. (Cahn 40.2 (O21/R33; this coin);

Pozzi 2574 (same dies)). Nice old cabinet toning. Very fine.

$ 800

ex Dr. Alfred E. Mirsky Collection (Gemini VII, 9 January 2011), lot 515

ex Furst Waldeck of Arolsen Collection (Munzhandlung Basel IV, 1 Oct. 1935), lot 823.