Watch List notes:

CYPRUS, Marion. Sasmai/Sasamarios. Circa 470-450 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 10.61 g, 4h). Lion standing right, licking its right foreleg; Boiotian shield above, sa–sa–ma–o to-ka-ro-to-sa ("Sasmai/Sasamarios, son of Doxandros") in Cypriot across upper field, floral pattern in exergue / Phrixos standing left, clinging to the back of a ram standing left; ma–ri–eu–se ("of Marion") in Cypriot on left and below, Boiotian shield below; all within incuse square. Tziambazis 50; BMC p. 71, 1 = Traité II 1366; SNG Copenhagen 24; E.S.G. Robinson, "British Museum Acquisitions for 1930-31" in NC 1932, 10; ACGC 1108 = E.S.G. Robinson, "British Museum Acquisitions for the Years 1933-1934" in NC 1936, 45; Kunstfreund 168 (all from the same dies). Good VF, toned, minor roughness and light scratches under tone on reverse. Very rare.


Ex Triton XV (3 January 2012), lot 1264 (sold for hammer $16,000, but not paid); Spink 46 (9 October 1985), lot 133.