Greek Silver & Bronze
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Lot 2648 Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $1,100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,370
CARIA, Cnidos, (c.520-495 B.C.), silver drachm, (6.198 grams), obv. forepart of lion to right, with usual die deteriation, rev. head of Aphrodite to right of fine archaic style, hair in lines and bound with plain diadem, all within incuse square, (S.3543 [£450], Cahn, Knidos No.49 [same dies], McLean 8470 [same dies], SNG Cop. 215 [same dies]). Light tone, good very fine and rare.
Only 20 examples are known from these dies and these almost all in public collections. The reverse die is one of only 15 used for the whole Archaic coinage in this the earliest period of the coinage.
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