Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 2299 SESSION 13 (11.30AM THURSDAY 27TH NOVEMBER) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $1,000
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IONIA, Ephesus, (c.180-67 B.C.), silver cistophoric tetradrachm, (12.62 g), struck 137-134 B.C., obv. cista mystica containing serpent, all within ivy wreath, rev. bow in case between two coiled serpents, to left **EFE, to right hippocamp, naked male (Herakles?) above, (cf.S.4395, Kleiner & Noe Series 39.56, SNG Copenhagen -). Bright, nearly extremely fine and rare.
Ex Anthony (Tony) Taylor Collection.^CNG Auction 393, lot 126. Previously the Dr. Lawrence D. Sporty Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 876098 (July 2010).
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Estimate $1,000
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