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Obolos 21

2 January 2022
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Starting Price: 500 CHF
Hammer Price:  2800 CHF
Lot 448

IONIA. Uncertain. Circa 550 BC. Trite (Electrum, 12 mm, 4.41 g), on the Milesian weight standard. Two rampant lions, heraldically arranged on left and right, standing upright on their back legs and touching with ‘forlegs”, their heads reverted; between them, stylized lotus flower (?). Rev. Incuse square. Unique and unpublished, a coin of great interest. Very fine.

From a Swiss collection, ex Obolos 5, 26 June 2016, 320.

This is a particularly difficult coin: Its design clearly resembles the Stater from the Rosen collection (no. 149), ex Nomos 3, 2011, 118, of which it appears to be a 1/3 fraction, but it is of much cruder style.

Online bidding closes: 2 Jan 2022, 17:44:00 CET Current Date & Time: 26 Apr 2024, 15:42:14 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:2800 CHF by MailBidder2339 (7 bids)
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