Kaunos (BC 465-460) Stater

ca 465-460. AR Stater (11.65g). Naked youthful Genius with spread wings kneeling right, raising left hand in which he holds caduceus / Lion crouching left, raising right foreleg, head reverted, ZMB (retrograde), within shallow incuse square. Rare. A superb and elegant late archaic coin, EF.

Ex Ars Classica XVII, 1934, 385; Glendining 1961, Lockett collection part IV, 2392; Hess-Leu 61, 1966, 53; M&M 68, 1986, 292, NAC 7, 1994, 243. From the Carian hoard 1932 (IGCH 1180).

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City/Mint name:	Kaunos
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Keywords:	silver / classical
References:	H. Troxell, Essays Margaret Thompson, Winged Carians, p. 264, 41 (this coin); SNG von Aulock 2351 (this obverse die); Gulbenkian 779 (these dies); G. Robinson, NC 1936, Archaic Coins, p. 268, 10 (this coin); Lockett 2917 (this coin)
Valuation:	NAC Auc. 27 (5/2004), lot 187 (CHF 10,000 ($7,739) + comm)
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