Watch List notes:

IONIA, Teos. Circa 450-425 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 12.11 g). Griffin seated right, raising forepaw. both wings displayed, on decorated ground line; to lower right, swan standing right / Quadripartite incuse square. Matzke Group Cb1; Balcer Group LII, 101 (A101/P133); SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; Boston MFA 1939 = Warren 1135 (same dies); Nomos 6, lot 92 (same dies). Near EF, lightly toned, minor edge split, light die wear on obverse, small scrape on reverse.


From the RAJ Collection. Ex Ponterio 54 (20 March 1992), lot 127.