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Nomos 21

21 November 2020
Zunfthaus zur Saffran, Zurich

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Estimate: 6500 CHF
Hammer Price:  13000 CHF
Lot 72

SICILY. Kamarina. Circa 405 BC. Didrachm (Silver, 21 mm, 7.89 g, 1 h). KAM – A – [PI] – N[A] (retrograde) The nymph Kamarina, her head turned to left, wearing a chiton and with her legs crossed at the ankles, riding a swan to left, clasping the swan's neck with her left hand and the end of her chiton with her right; in the field to left and right, three fish (grey mullets?). Rev. ΙΠΠΑ – P [Ι – Σ] (retrograde) Bare head of the river-god Hipparis to left, flanked by two fish swimming upwards. Gillet 372 (this coin). Jameson 527 (this coin). Rizzo Pl. VII, 2 (same dies). SNG Lloyd 873 (same dies). Westermark-Jenkins 165.6 (this coin). Extremely rare. A coin of lovely full Classical style. Porous surfaces with some marks and scratches, otherwise, very fine.

From a European collection and from the Prospero Collection, New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, 129, and ex NCirc XCIII, 2 (February 1985), 747, from the collections of C. Gillet and R. Jameson, and from that of Sir A. J. Evans, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 January 1898 ("Archaeologist and Traveller"), 47.

Online bidding closes: 21 Nov 2020, 11:00:00 CET Current Date & Time: 28 Mar 2024, 12:22:46 CET Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:13000 CHF

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