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Nomos 16

10 May 2018
Zunfthaus zur Saffran, Zürich
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Estimate: 20000 CHF
Hammer Price:  17500 CHF
Lot 118

MYSIA. Kyzikos. Circa 386-362 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 24.8 mm, 15.24 g, 7 h). ΣΩΤΕΙΡΑ Head of Kore to left, wearing grain wreath, pendant earring, simple necklace and sphendone covered by a veil. Rev. ΚΥ - ΞΙ Lion’s head to left, with open jaws and protruding tongue; below, tunny fish to left; to right, horizontal bunch of grapes. Sandstrom 102b (this coin). SNG Paris 398 (same dies = Sandstrom 102a). Attractive, well centered, lightly toned and of very fine late classical style. A. Extremely fine.

From the Ravenel Collection, USA, and from that of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza and Dr. T. S. Kaplan, Numismatica Genevensis IX, 14 December 2015, 55, ex Nomos Fixed Price List, Winter-Spring 2008, 47 and Hess-Leu 31, 6 December 1966, 400.

Online bidding closes: 10 May 2018, 05:00:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 1 Apr 2026, 10:58:04 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:17500 CHF
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