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21 February 2021
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Starting Price: 1000 CHF
Hammer Price:  3200 CHF
Lot 232

CRETE. Polyrhenion. Circa 320-270 BC. Stater (Silver, 26 mm, 9.76 g, 6 h), struck under the magistrate, Charisthenes. Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. ΠΟΛΥΡΗ-ΝΙΟΝ / ΧΑΡΙΣΘΕN Bull’s head facing, with fillets hanging from its horns. Le Rider -. Stefanakis, Πολυρρήνια, 32 (this coin). Svoronos p. 276, 2 and pl. XXVI, 22. An attractive piece, clear and well-struck on a very broad flan. Some striking flatness, and a scratch on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine.

From the Trausnitz Collection, Nomos 19, 17 November 2019 123, ex G. Hirsch 199, 6 May 1998, 127, Elsen 49, 19 April 1997, 265 and Ceresio 3, 3 October 1992, 107.

Online bidding closes: 21 Feb 2021, 16:56:00 CET Current Date & Time: 20 Apr 2024, 13:18:47 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:3200 CHF by MailBidder2339 (6 bids)
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