Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 589. Estimate $300. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002. 
Sold For $300. 

CYCLADES, Karthaea on Keos. 3rd Century BC. AE20mm (6.13 gm). 

Laureate head of Apollo right 
KARQASA, Forepart of a dog (Seirios) left surrounded by rays; fly below. 

Papageorgiadou-Banis, The Coinage of Kea,/I>, Series VIII, Issue 2, 
106-117; BMC Crete pg. 92, 40; SNG Copenhagen 633. VF, brown patina. Rare. ($300)

The Dog Star Seirios (Sirius), to whom propitiatory sacrifices 
were made, was associated with the heat of summer, drought and 
pestilence.
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