Electrotypes & Copies
Lot 4677 Session 17 (11.30am Friday 25 November) Terry Naughton Colle Electrotypes & Copies
Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $160
SICILY, Akragas, copy of tetradrachm type (c.414-411 B.C.), (13.49 g), obv. two eagles perching right on the body of a dead hare, the nearer, with closed wings, raises his head and screams in triumph, the further, with spread wings, bends his head down to tear at the prey, rev. crab with open claws seen from above, below, the monster Skylla swimming to left, her right hand raised to shade her eyes (the so-called aposkopein gesture) and her left trailing behind her, at her waist, between her human torso and her fish tail, the foreparts of two hunting dogs, (cf.S.748, Basel 258 = Kraay / Hirmer 175, Gulbenkian 166, Jameson 509. Toned, extremely fine. Rizzo pl. I, 20 (same dies). SNG Lloyd 821 (same dies, and with similar flan faults). Extremely fine, copy, probably by Ready.
Ex Noble Numismatics Auction Sale 84 (lot 2386 part).
See note above on Ready.
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