Watch List notes:

CARIA, Knidos. Circa 395-380 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.98 g, 12h). Phanias, magistrate. Head of Aphrodite left, hair in ampyx and sphendone, wearing single-pendant earring and pearl necklace; K-NI flanking neck; behind neck, prow left / Forepart of lion left; ΦANIAΣ below; all within incuse square. Hecatomnus 30a (A12/P28 – this coin, illustrated); HN Online 1602; otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Find patina. VF. Very rare, one of fourteen noted by Ashton in Hecatomnus.


Ex Peus 384 (2 November 2005), lot 478; Peus 380 (3 November 2004), lot 536; Lanz 102 (28 May 2001), lot 272; Lanz 76 (18 May 1996), lot 241.