GREEK COINS
Caria. CARIA. Knidos. Circa 500 BC. Diobol (Silver, 14 mm, 1.83 g, 9 h). Head of roaring lion to right. Rev. Archaistic head of Aphrodite to right, with her hair bount with fillet and falling down behind; all within incuse square with dotted linear border. BMC 9 (these dies). Cahn p. 19 pl. 1, 1 (V1/R 1). SNG Copenhagen 249 (these dies). Very sharp, an extremely attractive example of the finest late archaic style, and with a particularly well-struck reverse. Minor die break on the reverse and a somewhat irregular flan, otherwise, extremely fine.
From the RRG collection, acquired prior to 1978.
The female head on the reverse of this coin is quite amazingly archaic in flavor: the eye, hair, chin, lips and general profile hark back to the Daedalic style of the 7th century.