Crete
Itanos. Circa 350-320 BC. Stater (Silver, 24 mm, 11.39 g, 12 h). Head of Athena to left, wearing crested Attic helmet adorned with two olive leaves on the visor and a palmette on a tendril on the bowl. Rev. ITANIΩN Eagle with folded wings standing left, his head turned back to right; in field to right, triton swimming upwards, raising his right hand and holding a trident with his left; all within a shallow incuse square. Le Rider, pl. VIII, 15. Cf. McClean 7129. Svoronos, Numismatique 35. Rare. A lovely, nicely toned and well-struck coin. Nearly extremely fine.

From a European collection, ex The New York Sale XXXII, 8 January 2014, 151 (mistakenly listed as withdrawn in the online search engines, but actually sold for $11,000!), from the Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, 406, and ex Giessener Münzhandlung 56, 7 October 1991, 236.