Electrotypes & Copies
Lot 4684 Session 17 (11.30am Friday 25 November) Terry Naughton Colle Electrotypes & Copies
Estimate $100
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SOLD $90
MACEDON, Amphipolis, modern copy of silver tetradrachm, of type 364/3 B.C., (13.25 g), obv. laureate head of Apollo facing slightly right, rev. torch, A to lower right, within linear square inscribed with ethnic, all within in incuse square, (cf.S.1379, cf.Lorber type G, 18b [O11/R15, Pl.XXI] as a copy of the BMC 1, forgery illustrated as F24 p.142, Pl.XXVII, with reverse double struck). A good forgery by Christodoulos cast from Lorber 18b, as a copy of one of the most significant ancient Greek coins, good very fine.
Ex Walter Holt, November 27, 2012.
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