Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
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Lot 3655 Session 12 (11.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $150
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ILLYRIA, Epidamnos-Dyrrhachium, (250-229 B.C.), silver drachm, (2.50 grams), obv. Herakles head to right in lion skin, rev. Pegasos flying to right, **U* above, **L* below, (S.1896, SNG Cop 533); Italy, Lucania, Herakleia, (380-281 B.C.), silver diobol, (0.83 grams), obv. head of Athena to right, wearing crested helmet, ornamented with hippocamp, rev. Herakles wrestling lion, (cf.S.392, SNG ANS 30); Euboia, Eretria, (500-465 B.C.), silver obol, (0.57 grams), obv. bull's head facing, rev. octopus in incuse square, (S.1825, BMC 33-38, SNG Cop. 473, Lanz Auction Sale Catalogue 111, [lot 327-335]). Toned, fine - very fine and scarce. (3)
The last coin ex Noble Numismatics sale 89, (lot 3842).
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Lot 3653
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Lot 3654
ILLYRIA, Epidamnos-Dyrrhachium, (3rd-3nd century B.C.), silver drachm, (3.27 grams), obv. cow standing right looking back ...
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ILLYRIA, Epidamnos-Dyrrhachium, (250-229 B.C.), silver drachm, (2.50 grams), obv. Herakles head to right in lion ...
Estimate $150
Lot 3656
THESSALY, Gyrton, (late 4th-early 3rd century B.C.), AE Dichalkon, (5.35 grams), obv. young male head ...
Estimate $100
Lot 3657
THESSALY, Thessalian League, (196-146 B.C.), silver stater or double victoriatus or one and a half ...
Estimate $200