Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 2674 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $2,800
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SOLD $1,680
MACEDON, Lete, silver stater, c.530-480 B.C., (this issue c.500 B.C.), (9.21 g), obv. nude, ithyphallic satyr standing right, grasping the right arm and stroking the chin of a nymph who stands before him, trying to move away to the right and raising her left hand in protest, pellet in right field, rev. diagonally quartered incuse square, (S.1298 [Sear illustrated a very similar coin from the same reverse die], SNG ANS 954-963 [Pl.36, close to 960]. Svoronos pl. VIII, 6, No.16 [p.81], SNG Lockett 1325-7 [Pl.XXV], SNG Cop. 187 [Pl.5], SNG Ash. 2270-1 [Pl.XLII], ACNAC Dewing 1022, BMC 4-7 [p.77]). Good very fine and very rare.
Ex Edward J. Waddell Ltd., Mail bid sale No.81, January 24, 2004 (lot 90).
Svoronos pp.79-83, gives these coins to Sirinopaeonians. The attribution to Lete is more likely. See discussions in Kraay ACGC pp.148-149 and Asyut pp.34-35. See "Silenus and Nymph" Ava C. Jaunzems, in SAN VII, 3, pp.38-40, who places the issue at the end of Period I, ie. c.500 B.C.
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