Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3461 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $200
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $140
EUBOIA, Euboean League, (304-290 B.C.), silver drachm, (3.58 gm), obv. head of nymph Euboea to left, with hair rolled, rev. cow neck and head three-quarter to right, fillet hanging from each horn, EY above, without symbol, (S.2467, Wallace (NN&M 134) No.60 listed [p.146], Lanz BCD Sale Catalogue 111, [lot 19 realised 240 euros +], SNG Cop. 482). Dark grey tone, very fine and rare.
Ex BCD Collection (with his ticket) and Classical Numismatic group (with their ticket) and previously from the W.P. Wallace Collection and Noble Numismatics Auction Sale 78 (lot 5005). Wallace notes 153 examples of this variety including this piece.
Estimate / sale price does not include buyer's premium (currently 22% including GST) which is added to hammer price. All bids are executed on the understanding that the Terms & Conditions of sale have been read and accepted. For information on grading and estimates please refer to the Buying at Auction advice.
Quick find
View a lot by number and sale.
Adjacent lots
Lot 3459
BOIOTIA, Boiotian League, Federal Coinage, silver drachm, (225-171 B.C.), (4.99 gm), obv. bearded laureate head ...
Estimate $300
Lot 3460
EUBOIA, Eretria, (500-465 B.C.), silver obol, (0.54 gm), obv. bull's head facing, rev. octopus in ...
Estimate $120
Lot 3461 This lot
EUBOIA, Euboean League, (304-290 B.C.), silver drachm, (3.58 gm), obv. head of nymph Euboea to ...
Estimate $200
Lot 3462
EUBOIA, Histiaia, (c.350-340 B.C.), silver drachm, (3.02 gm), obv. head of nymph Histiaia wreathed in ...
Estimate $150
Lot 3463
EUBOIA, Karystos, (issue of an unknown tyrant in the late third century B.C.), silver stater, ...
Estimate $1,500