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Nomos 37 Realized: 3000 CHF
Black Sea Region. Uncertain city. Circa 4th century BC or later, but pre-Roman. A Decorative Circular Roundel or Disc (Gold, 34 mm, 1.79 g, 12 h), intended to be used attached to a fabric backing. A Nereid, or sea nymph, nude to the waist, seated on the back of hippocamp swimming to right; she holds, with both hands, her veil, which billows behind her; below, an exergue formed by a trident to right above a dolphin swimming to left; all within a circular border formed by two linear circles between a further two dotted ones. Rev. As the obverse but incuse. For a similar numismatic parallel cf. Betlyon 349 (a Tyrian shekel with Melkart riding a hippocamp above the waves with a dolphin below). For archaeological parallels see: Christie's 9599, 13 May 2003, lot 150 (a Roman marble Nereid and hippocamp group of the 2nd century AD, copying an Hellenistic original); the Nereid riding a hippocamp on mosaics in the Bardo Museum and the Selçuk Museum (from Ephesos), and on the altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus from Rome; in addition, there are many representations of Thetis riding on a hippocamp bearing the arms of Achilles. Extremely rare. Unpublished and possibly unique. Tiny piercings on the edge and some crinkling, otherwise, extremely fine.

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Obolos 41 Realized: 240 CHF
GREEK. Circa 4th century BC. (Silver, 27.14 g). Large lot of eight (8) coins, consisting of drachms of Alexander III of Macedon, Miletos, and Maussallos, all with surface roughness, some with scratches and one with a chipped flan, mostly fine to good very fine.

Lot sold as seen, no returns (8) .

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