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Obolos 5

26 June 2016
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A unique and unpublished coin of great interest

Starting Price: 500 CHF
Hammer Price:  2400 CHF
Lot 320

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 550 BC. Trite (Electrum, 12mm, 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 Unique and unpublished, a coin of great interest.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.


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: 26 Jun 2016, 17:40:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 19 Apr 2024, 16:12:31 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:2400 CHF by garyhorvath (12 bids)
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