Ancient Gold Coins
Lot 3022 SESSION 11 (9.30am Thursday) Ancient Gold Coins
Estimate $35,000
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THRACE - TAURIC CHERSONESUS, Panticapaeum, (c.320 B.C.), gold stater, (9.148 grams), obv. head of bearded Silenus to left, with animal ear, wearing ivy wreath, rev. horned griffin with curved wings standing to left on an ear of corn, right foreleg raised, head facing, holding spear in jaws **P A N* around, (S.1693, SNG BM 867, Traite pl.353, 20; Kraay - Hirmer Pl.142, 440, Anokhin 109 Pl.3). A spectacular coin with some weakness on the reverse, obverse with a scratch, otherwise extremely fine and very rare.
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