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Nomos 22

22 June 2021
Zunfthaus zur Saffran, Zurich

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Estimate: 17500 CHF
Hammer Price:  35000 CHF
Lot 44
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SICILY. Kamarina. Circa 425-405 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 28 mm, 17.00 g, 4 h), signed by the engraver Exakestidas on the obverse. Athena, wearing helmet, aegis and a long chiton, and holding the reins in both hands and the kentron in her right, driving a quadriga galloping to right; above, Nike flying to left to crown her; on the exergual line, signature ΕΞΑΚΕΣΤΙΔΑΣ; in the exergue, two amphorae with a connecting line. Rev. ΚΑΜΑΡΙΝΑΙΟΝ Head of youthful Herakles to right, wearing a lion's skin headdress knotted beneath his chin. BMC 14 = Rizzo pl. 5, 11 (same dies). BMFA 260 (same dies). Nanteuil 265 (same dies). SNG Lloyd 871 (same dies). Westermark & Jenkins 149.7 (this coin). Clear and very attractively toned. Some surface roughness, otherwise, good very fine.

From the Wolfen Foundation Collection, Goldberg 72, 5 February 2013, 4011 and ex Leu 7, 9 May 1973, 57, Hess-Leu 24 March 1959, 56 and Hess-Leu 16 April 1957, 67.

Online bidding closes: 22 Jun 2021, 10:00:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 29 Mar 2024, 12:19:51 CET Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:35000 CHF

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