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Obolos 16

11 October 2020
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From the J-P. Righetti collection

Starting Price: 50 CHF
Hammer Price:  950 CHF
Lot 372

CYCLADES, Melos. 3rd-1st century BC. (Bronze, 14 mm, 2.57 g, 10 h). Apple on stem with leaves. Rev. Grape bunch within wreath. BMC 20-1. HGC 6, 849. Joy -. Dark green patina. Some pitting and corrosion, otherwise, nearly very fine.

From the Vineyard Collection, and from the J.-P. Righetti Collection, Auctiones 29, 12-13 June 2003, 355.

The choice of obverse type, a pomegranate, is a punning allusion to the city's name: pomegranate is melon in Greek. Although this coin is anepigraphic, most coins from Melos carry the city ethnic on the reverse, until the second century the Doric ΜΑΛΙΩΝ, and afterwards, the Attic ΜHΛΙΩΝ.

Online bidding closes: 11 Oct 2020, 17:06:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 19 Apr 2024, 08:16:49 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:950 CHF by Diomedes (12 bids)
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