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Nomos 31

23 march 2024, 16:00 CET

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Unpublished Pattern!

Estimate: 8750 CHF
Hammer Price:  18000 CHF
Lot 182

GREECE. Georgios I, 1863-1913. Pattern 1 Drachmi 1910 (Silver, 23 mm, 4.98 g, 6 h), Pattern lacking the mint marks and with large letters on reverse. Paris, struck from dies by Georgios Jakobides, reeded edge. ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ Α! ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ / 1910 Elderly head of George I to left; below truncation, in tiny letters, Γ. ΙΑΚΩΒΙΔΗΣ. Rev. ΔΡΑΧΜH Veiled Thetis, seated to left on a hippocamp swimming to right, holding with her extended right hand the shield of Achilles adorned with a facing gorgoneion. Divo -. Karamitsos T.72. KM Pn41. Extremely rare, a pattern that has only appeared a very few times over the past generation. Graded by NGC "MS 62". Cert number: 2909004-007.

From the El-Greco Collection of Modern Greek Rarities, and from the collection of Dr. Athanasios Ghertsos, Bank Leu 53, 21-22 October 1991, 624b.

Online bidding closes: 23 Mar 2024, 09:00:00 CET Current Date & Time: 27 Apr 2024, 08:32:59 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:18000 CHF

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