Watch List notes:

CARIA, Knidos. Circa 500-490 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 6.11 g, 6h). Forepart of lion roaring right / Diademed head of Aphrodite right within incuse square. Cahn Series II, 44 (V25/R35); SNG Copenhagen 211–2 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned.


From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection. Ex Berk BBS 179 (24 May 2012), lot 136; G. Hirsch 275 (22 September 2011), lot 3877; Giessener Münzhandlung 58 (9 April 1992), lot 410.