Biblical & Jewish Coins
Lot 1808 Session 6 (9.30am Thursday) Biblical & Jewish Coins
Estimate $400
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SOLD $290
BITHYNIA, Kalchedon, (c.340-320 B.C.), silver siglos (Persian standard), (5.336 grams), obv. bull standing to left, on corn-ear, above **KAL[C]* rev. quadripartite incuse square of mill-sail pattern, (S.3738, SNG BMC Black Sea 112ff. [siglos], SNG von Aulock 482). Extremely fine, some surface roughness, well centred and rare in this condition.
Cf. A similar piece for the twin city on the other side (Byzantium) of the Bosphorus.
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