Ancients
LYCIAN DYNASTS. Pericles (ca. 380-360 BC). AR stater (23mm, 9.50 gm, 6h). NGC AU 3/5 - 3/5. Antipellus mint, ca. 380-375 BC. Laureate head of Pericles facing slightly left, drapery around neck; to right, dolphin downward / Hoplite, nude but for Corinthian helmet, in fighting stance to right, brandishing sword in right hand, shield on left arm; PERIKLE (in Lycian) and triskeles to left, VEHNTEZE (in Lycian) to right, all within shallow incuse square. Mildenberg, Mithrapata 20 (A14/R15). SNG von Aulock 4251 (same dies); BMFA Supp. 234 (same dies). Obverse roughness, reverse struck from worn die, but possessing an arresting frontal portrait presaging numismatic portraiture of the Hellenistic age.
Ex Martin A. Armstrong Collection (CNG 102, 18 May 2016), lot 552; acquired from CNG inventory in November 1995.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 4000-5000 USD