Watch List notes:

CRETE, Aptera. Circa 280 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 11.36 g, 6h). Obverse die signed by the artist Pythodoros. Head of Artemis right, wearing ornate stephanos, solar-disk pendant earring with three drops, and pearl necklace; [A-ΠTEPAI]ΩN around, ΠYΘOΔΩPOY to right / The hero Apteros-Ptoloioikos, wearing crested helmet and cuirass, holding shield and spear in left hand, right hand raised toward fir tree to left; ΠTO[ΛI]-OI-KOΣ around. Svoronos, Numismatique 5 (same dies as illustration); Le Rider, Crétoises, p. 36, 268; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 1 (same dies); Boston MFA Supp. 108 (same dies); Boutin –; Evans –; Traeger –. Toned, typical areas of weak strike, scattered light marks. VF. Extremely rare.

Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 81 (18 September 1995), lot 74.