Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 3221 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $3,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $3,000
THRACE, Abdera, (c.473-448 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (14.282 grams), obv. Griffin seated to left, foreleg raised, around **A BD HPI TEWN*, dotted border, rev. **[E]PIN UMF ODW RO* legend around quadripartite linear square, (cf.S.1536 [£2000], May 141 [p.127, same dies, obverse 117, rev. 116], SNG Cop. -, cf.BMC NC 1900, p.278 No.7, only known example from these dies noted in the Munich Cabinet). Good very fine/very fine, well centred and extremely rare.
May knew of two examples with this magistrate both are from different pairs of dies.
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