Greek Silver & Bronze
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Lot 2627 Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $120
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $70
ITALY, Bruttium, Croton (Kroton), (500-460 B.C.), silver stater or didrachm (7.19 grams), obv. tripod crane to left, [QPO] to right, rev. tripod, incuse, (S.256, SNG Cop. 1759-1760, SNG Munich 1428). Some porosity on obverse, off centre on the reverse, otherwise nearly fine/good fine and scarce.
This was a period when the issues were crudely struck on small dumpy flans, the tripods particularly on the reverse were very crude. An interesting step in the evolution to the next series of eagles on the reverse.
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