Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 4536 Session 15 (7.30pm Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $600
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SOLD $1,200
LYDIA, Sardis, time of King Croesus or later, (c.550-520 B.C.), silver half stater or siglos, (5.248 grams), obv. confronting foreparts of lion, facing right, and bull facing left, rev. two incuse punches of unequal size, side by side, (S.3420 [£450], BMC 41, Traite pl.10, 9, SNG von Aulock 2877, I. Carradice, Coinage of the Persian Empire BAR Inter. Ser. 343, [1987], Pl.10, 3). Very fine and rare.
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