Greek Silver & Bronze Coins - Celtic - Susanian
Lot 4251 SESSION 16 (9.30AM THURSDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins - Celtic - Susanian
Estimate $1,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $900
CILICIA, Soloi, (390-375 B.C.), silver stater, (10.67 g), obv. head of Athena wearing Athenian helmet to right, ornamented with a griffin, dotted border, rev. bunch of grapes on a stalk, all within incuse diamond area, on either side of the grapes A B, around the outside flat area, **SO LE WN*, (S.5606, Babelon Traite 1426 [same dies], SNG Levante 43 (Pl.3 = SNG France II, 173 (Pl.6), Waddington 4495). Good very fine and very rare.
Ex Superior Stamp and Coins, Los Angeles, at the New York Auction Sale 4 December 1998 (lot 1081); previously noted by Superior as from the Bunker Hunt Collection (not in sales).
A similar example from the same dies was in Triton VII, 12 January 2004 (lot 308) realised $1200US.
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