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Nomos 9

21 October 2014
Zunfthaus zur Saffran, Zürich
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Estimate: 3000 CHF
Hammer Price:  3600 CHF
Lot 68

THRACO-MACEDONIAN REGION, Uncertain mint (Asoros = Assiros?). c. 500-480 BC. Triobol (?) (Silver, 11x15mm, 1.77 g). Sphinx seated to right, with plume emerging from her head. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. Unpublished but for Lanz 150, 2010, 65 (same dies, but ascribed to Samothrace and with the sphinx’s head partly off the flan). Extremely rare and particularly attractive. Very slightly rough surfaces, otherwise, extremely fine.


From the Höher collection.

This extraordinary piece is apparently a triobol, or hemidrachm, and has to be connected with the rare tetradrachms (ranging from 12.5-14 g) that are now ascribed to an uncertain Macedonian mint (Svoronos assigned them to Asoros); as SNG ANS 1012 and Svoronos, HPM, pl. VII, 14 (= Traité I, 1004 and pl. XXVIII, 24, “incertaines d’Asie Mineure”).

Online bidding closes: 21 Oct 2014, 00:00:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 19 Mar 2024, 03:22:35 CET Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:3600 CHF

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