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Nomos 20

10 July 2020
Zunfthaus zur Saffran, Zurich

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Estimate: 9000 CHF
Hammer Price:  16000 CHF
Lot 167

PAPHLAGONIA. Sinope. Circa 425-410 BC. Drachm (Silver, 19 mm, 6.12 g, 6 h). Head of a sea eagle to left; below, dolphin swimming to left. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square composed of two raised and two sunken squares; within one of the sunken squares, Δ. HGC 7, 388. SNG Black Sea 1367-9. SNG von Aulock 6835 var. Toned, in high relief and with a dramatic eagle's head of the very finest style, closely reminiscent to the nearly contemporary eagles' heads from Olympia (as BCD 77/BMC 40/Seltman 154). One of the finest of all existing eagle-head drachms of Sinope. Extremely fine.

Ex Hess Divo 329, 17 November 2015, 84, Numismatic Fine Arts XVIII, 31 March 1987, 169, from the R. A. van Every Collection, Bank Leu 15, 5 May 1976, 272 (there bought by the late R. J. Myers) and ex Glendining, 9 July 1963, 97.

Online bidding closes: 10 Jul 2020, 10:00:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 12 Jul 2025, 03:51:16 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:16000 CHF
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