Electrotypes & Copies
Lot 4679 Session 17 (11.30am Friday 25 November) Terry Naughton Colle Electrotypes & Copies
Estimate $100
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SOLD $60
SICILY, Naxos, electrotype copy of the tetradrachm type by Becker (c.430-413 B.C.), (14.63 g), obv. bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing tainia decorated with an ivy branch, rev. Silenos, nude and bearded, squatting half-left, holding up kantharos in right hand and resting his left hand on his knee, tail behind, large ivy vine with grape bunches to left, NA**C*ION TO right, inscribed BECKER BMC 18 on edge, (cf.S.875, cf.BMC 19, Becker 21). Good very fine copy by Becker.
Ex Walter Holt, November 28, 2008.
See note above on Becker forgeries.
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