Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3356 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday 20th November) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $150
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SOLD $50
PHILISTIA, (Palestine), Uncertain mint, (c.Mid 5th century - 333 B.C.), silver ma'ah or obol (0.79 g), obv. helmeted head of Athena to right, rev. owl standing right, head facing, olive spray behind, [palm tree] above four pellets before, (S.-, Gitler & Tal, 'The Coinage of Philistia of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC' Pl.H[XII,7O] p.168-9; HGC 10, 610). Fine - very fine on a squarish flan poorly struck but about as struck, very rare.
Ex Gerhard Hirsch, Munich Auction Sale November 24. 2000 (lot 744 part). Gitler & Tal note three examples.
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