Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 4648 Session 16 (9:30am Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $150
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SOLD $200
BITHYNIA, Kalchedon, silver drachm, (416-357 B.C.), (5.13 g), obv. bull standing to left on ear of corn, **KALC*, rev. quadripartite incuse square of "mill-sail" pattern, the surfaces granulated, (S.3738, BMC 4-7). At edge a porous surface, but attractive, good very fine and very scarce.
The scarce drachm of this weight was issued at a weight standard to correspond to that of the Persian siglos. This is in contrast to the next issue of drachms where a large weight reduction took place to correspond to the Philip II standard of 15.3 grams for a tetradrachm. Philip besieged the city in 340-339 B.C.
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