Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Lot 4908    SESSION 16 - 9.30AM FRIDAY 16 APRIL    Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

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THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBE, The Derrones. Ca. 475-450 B.C., silver dodecadrachm (37.24 gm), Obv. male driver seated in ox cart moving to left, holding goad in raised right hand and reins in left, a crested Corinthian helmet in field above ox, plain under ox, Rev. triskeles of human legs, (S.1315 [Å“6500], cf.Svoronos 15-17 [p.8], pl. II, 1-4 [similar dies]. cf.AMNG III/2 [p.56, 7] and pl. xxv, 18 [similar dies]). Svoronos report 4 example from these similar dies (these of lighter weight), reverse weakly struck as typical for this series, otherwise very fine and very rare, dies unpublished.

The Derrones were a Thraco-Macedonian tribe that lived in the mountain Pangei (Pernar), on the river Strymon in Macedon. Types exist with the ox cart going to left and others to the right. Recent hoards and other earlier finds suggest less than 100 of these large silver coins survive today.