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Nomos 31

23 march 2024, 16:00 CET

Zurich, Zunfthaus zur Saffran

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Estimate: 12500 CHF
Hammer Price:  30000 CHF
Lot 186

GREECE. Georgios I, 1863-1913. Pattern 2 Drachmai 1911 (Silver, 27 mm, 9.98 g, 6 h), but lacking all privy marks, Paris, struck from dies by Georgios Jakobides, reeded edge. ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ Α! ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ / 1911 Elderly head of George I to left; below truncation, in tiny letters, Γ. ΙΑΚΩΒΙΔΗΣ. Rev. ΔΙΔΡΑΧΜΟΝ Veiled Thetis, seated to left on a hippocamp swimming to right, holding, with her right hand, the shield of Achilles adorned with a facing gorgoneion. Divo -. Karamitsos T.74 (this coin, but not illustrated). KM Pn42. The only example known. Graded by NGC "MS 61". Unique in the Pop Report in NGC and PCGS. Cert number: 2908888-011.

From the El-Greco Collection of Modern Greek Rarities, and from the Asprogerakas collection, Schweizerischer Bankverein 9, 30 January 1980, 748.

Online bidding closes: 23 Mar 2024, 09:00:00 CET Current Date & Time: 27 Apr 2024, 14:27:25 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:30000 CHF

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