CYCLADES, Keos. Karthaia. Circa 540-520/15 BC. Stater (Silver, 20 mm, 12.12 g). Amphora, with handles running from the shoulder to the lip. Rev. Incuse square divided into six compartments. Gillet 919 = Papageorgiadou-Banis 1a = Sartiges 325 = Seltman 1b = Sheedy 1a ( this coin ). Traité II, 1, 1870 and pl. LX, 1 ( same dies ). Rare. Beautifully toned and struck in high relief. Extremely fine.

Property of a Late Collector, and from the collections of the Viscount Wimborne (=Ivor Fox-Strangeways Guest), Sotheby's, London, 4 April 1991, 56, C. Gillet (Kunstfreund), Bank Leu & Münzen und Medaillen 28 May 1974, 19, the Vicomte Louis Edmond Paul de Sartiges (1859-1924), and J. P. Lambros (1843-1909), J. Hirsch XXIX, 9 November 1910, 601.