Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3138 SESSION 11 (9.30AM THURSDAY 2ND APRIL) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $200
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SOLD $140
CARIA, Mylasa, (c.170-130 B.C.), silver drachm (2.20 g), struck on Rhodian standard, obv. facing head of Helios, to lower left, eagle standing right, rev. rose with buds to left and right; **X*-A/M-A in two lines flanking rose, (cf.S.5088, Ashton, Mylasa 180 [A58/P128], Akarca 7, 1 [letters]); Mysia, Parion, (c.350-300 B.C.), silver three-quarter drachm, (2.29 g), obv. bull standing to left, looking back, above [**P A]*, below P I, laurel branch below, rev. gorgoneion facing,(cf.S.3922, SNG Dewing 2204, BMC 23 [p.96], SNG France 1375-6); Bithynia, Kios, (c.350-300 B.C.), silver hemidrachm, (2.49 g), obv. Apollo laureate head to right, rev. prow of galley to left ornamented with a star, magistrate name **PROX ENOS* above and below, (cf.S.3757, SNG Ashmolean. 360-1, HGC 553). Fine - nearly very fine, first scarce. (3)
Ex George Mihailuk Collection, first acquired from Tony Byrne 15.3.2009, second from Edlins 9.7.2005, third from ANC 3.12.2008.
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