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Obolos 17

20 December 2020
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Starting Price: 2000 CHF
Hammer Price:  3400 CHF
Lot 289

IONIA. Ephesos. Circa 123-119 BC. Stater (Gold, 20 mm, 8.40 g, 11 h). Draped bust of Artemis to right, wearing stephane, necklace of pearls and with her bow and quiver over her shoulder. Rev. Ε-Φ Statue of the Artemis of Ephesos facing, with her hands outstretched to left and right; in each hand, a long fillet hanging downwards to her feet; to right, between her body and the vertical fillet, thymiaterion. Jenkins, Hellenistic, pl. B, 6 = BM 1896,0601.67 = Montagu I 567 (same dies). Münzen und Medaillen 41, 1970, 191 (same dies). With a fine portrait struck in high relief. Struck from lightly worn and slightly rusty dies, as usual, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.



The Hellenistic gold coinage of Ephesos is uniformly very rare; the sole publication on them is by G. K. Jenkins and appears in Anadolu 21 (1978-1980 - the Festschrift for E. Akurgal - published in 1987 and notoriously obscure). It had been previously thought that all the staters were struck during the Mithradatic wars but this is clearly not the case.

Online bidding closes: 20 Dec 2020, 17:24:30 CET Current Date & Time: 20 Apr 2024, 18:39:48 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:3400 CHF by kujira (7 bids)
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