The Prospero Collection - Part 12 - Baldwin's

528 Ionian Islands, Chios (c.400 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm, 15.26g, . Sphinx seated to left, a bunch of grapes
and an amphora before. Rev. Incuse square with striated surface, divided into four quarters by two
broad overlapping bands, on the horizontal of which is ΣΩKPATHΣ (Pixodarus Hoard, 28-31;
Baldwin -; BMC -). Toned, good very fine and rare. $ 7,500
Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd., London, 10 March 1987
529 Ionian Islands, Samos (c.370-365 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm, 15.21g, . Lion’s mask facing. Rev. ΣA,
forepart of an ox facing to right, an olive-branch behind, IHNOΔ[OTOΣ] / MANΔPAΓO[PO] in two lines
above (Barron 156 (A79 / P150) (this coin); S. Hurter, ‘The Pixodaros Hoard’, in Studies to Price, pl. 31,
17). Attractive cabinet tone, good very fine and very rare, the only example recorded by Barron. $ 7,500
This coin published in ‘The Silver Coins of Samos’, J. Barron (1966), p. 209, 156, illustrated on pl. XXI.
Ex F.R. Wiedemann Collection (1898)
Ex H. Weber Collection, 6304
Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection, Sotheby’s, Zurich, 9 June 1983, lot 121