Ancient Gold

Sale 72    26–28 Mar 2003   Wentworth Hotel   Sydney

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Lot 3202    Session 11 (9.30am Friday)    Ancient Gold

Estimate $900
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $950

LESBOS, Mytilene, c.450-338 B.C., electrum hekte (2.450 grams), Bodenstedt dates 390 B.C., obv. head of helmeted Athena to right, rev. head of Artemis-Kybele to right within rectangular linear square, (cf.S.4250, Bodenstedt 73 (dies d/**q* [new die combination], BMC 106 [Pl.34, 18], SNG von Aulock 1707, McClean 7972 [same obverse die]). Very fine/good fine and rare.

Bodenstedt reports 34 examples from all dies of this type.

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