ISLANDS OFF CARIA.
LINDOS. Stater, about 500-485. AR 13.74 g. Head of lion r. with wart and open mouth, dotted truncation. Rev. Incuse square, divided in two sunken rectangles by a broad bar inscribed with the ethnic ΛINΔI. H.A. Cahn, Die archaischen Silberstatere von Lindos, in Festschrift für K. Langlotz, Charites 1957, 21, G1 (same dies); BMC 228, 1 (same dies); SNG Keckman I, 353 (same obv. die).
Rare. Thick flan. Extremely fine

Provenance:
Eberhard W. Kornfeld (1923-2023), Bern collection
Sheik Saud bin Muhammad bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Jassim bin Muhammed Al-Tani (1966-2014), Qatar/London collection
Auctions Giessener Münzhandlung Dieter Gorny GmbH, Munich 40 (1988), 257 and 44 (1989), 403
Auction Münzhandlung G. Hirsch Nachf., Munich 275 (2011), 3901
Auction Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG, Zurich 124 ("A Highly Important Collection of Greek Coins
of a Man in Love with Art", 2021), 217.