Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 2694 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $1,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,600
CRETE, Phaistos, (c.330-320 B.C.), silver stater, (11.96 g), obv. young Herakles standing facing head to right, holding club and bow, lion skin in field to left, barleycorn to lower right, rev. within a laurel wreath, a bull butting to left, (S.3200, BMC 6 [p.62, Pl.XV, 2], SNG Cop. 512, Svoronos 21 [p. 258, Pl.XXIII obverse], Le Rider "Cretoises" Tresors 1953 Pl.III, 18 [same dies]). Good very fine and rare.
Ex Brian Jamieson Collection, sold Noble Numismatics Sale 86 (lot 3302).
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CRETE, Phaistos, (c.330-320 B.C.), silver stater, (11.96 g), obv. young Herakles standing facing head to ...
Estimate $1,500
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BITHYNIA, Kalchedon, (c.340-320 B.C.), silver siglos (Persian standard), (5.31 g), obv. bull standing to left, ...
Estimate $300
Lot 2696
MYSIA, Pergamon, (104-98 B.C.), silver cistophoric tetradrachm (12.10 g), obv. cista mystica in wreath, rev. ...
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