Electrotypes & Copies
Lot 4686 Session 17 (11.30am Friday 25 November) Terry Naughton Colle Electrotypes & Copies
Estimate $120
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $90
ELIS, Olympia, stater, electrotype copy by Ready of type (c. mid 430's), (10.22 g), obv. Zeus nude to waist seated left, rev. eagle flying left in incuse square, F A **L* around reversed, R stamped on edge, (Seltman 101a [Pl.III original illustrated of this electrotype in BM colln], BCD 44, cf.Weber 4023), with countermark of Apollo head; another modern copy of type c.471-452 B.C., (12.20 g), obv. eagle flying to right, with snake in beak, rev. Nike descending to left, with open wings and flowing gown, holding wreath, to left F reversed, (Seltman 78, Kraay & Hirmer 494). Both copies very fine - extremely fine, first a copy by Ready, second modern tourist copy. (2)
Ex Noble Numismatics Auction Sale 88 (lot 3469 part) for first coin and I.S. Wright, Sydney, January 22, 2014, for second coin.
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