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6 November 2023
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Best known example!

Estimate: 10000 CHF
Hammer Price:  12000 CHF
Lot 1267

THRACE. Byzantion. Circa 240-220 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 29 mm, 13.91 g, 12 h), Phoenician standard, struck under the magistrate Athanaeon. Veiled head head of Demeter to right, wearing simple grain wreath. Rev. Poseidon, draped from the waist, seated to right on a pile of stones, holding an aphlaston in his outstretched right hand and his trident over his left shoulder with his left; in the field to right, monogram of ΠΥ; in the field to left, monogram; in the exergue, ΕΠΙ AΘANAIΩNOΣ. Marinescu, issue 11. Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1001 (V12/R19). Rare. Well-struck, well-centered and attractively toned; a beautiful coin. Extremely fine.

From a European collection, ex Gorny & Mosch 211, 4 March 2013, 140.

Demeter is here shown as a matronly woman, no longer a young goddess.

Online bidding closes: 6 Nov 2023, 09:00:00 CET Current Date & Time: 27 Sep 2025, 21:09:06 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:12000 CHF
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