Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 4242 Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $150
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SOLD $190
PERSIAN IMPERIAL COINAGE, Kingdom of, Artaxerxes II and III (375-340 B.C.), struck in Lydia at Sardeis, silver siglos (5.41, 5.37, 5.50 g), obv. king as bearded archer kneeling to right with dagger and bow, rev. oblong incuse punch, (S.4683, Babelon Pl.86, 18-19, BMC 175, Carradice type IV). Fine or better, all with various countermarks. (3)
Ex Elvira Elisa Clain-Stefanelli (1914-2001) Collection [as the Demarete collection]. The Museo di Ismar (Milan, 1997) by Adriana Travaglini publishes a hoard of 499 similar coins with countermarks with images of the range of countermarks used in that hoard (Fig. C & D).
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