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Lot 3900    Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday)    Greek Silver & Bronze

Estimate $150
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $100

CORINTHIA, Corinth, Augustus, (31 B.C. - A.D. 14), AE As, issued 2-1 B.C., issued by C. Servilius and M. Antoninus Hipparchus, (6.96 grams), obv. bare head of Augustus to right, CAESAR to left, CORINT traces to right, rev. heads of Gaius and Lucius Caesar facing each other around traces of C SERVILIO C F PRIMO M ANTONIO HIPPARCHO IIVIR,(S.166 [£75], BMC 505, Amandry Group XIb, obv. D5, rev. 14.2 [p. 147, This Coin]. Lanz BCD Sale 105, lot 338 realised 1100 euros [near EF]). Portraits fine, weak legends, very rare.

Ex BCD Collection [from duplicates] and purchased from an old collection bought from Harmer Rooke in April 1974, lot includes tickets and photographs, (ticket also reports purchase from 'Schnei' in 2/33 (February 1933). This example comes from one of only two known from this set of dies the other example from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is illustrated in the standard reference Michael Amandry 'Le Monnayage des Duovirs Corinthiens', Paris 1988. In all Amandry reports 75 known examples from all dies most of which are in public collections.

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