Greek Silver & Bronze
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Lot 3280 Session 11 (9.30am Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $120
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $90
THRACE, Byzantion, (350 B.C.), silver tetrobol, (2.478 grams), obv. cow standing to left, foreleg raised, above **PU*, rev. qudripartite incuse square of mill-sail pattern, another similar Bithynia, Calchedon (c.350 B.C.), (2.466 grams), obv. bull to left on ground line, rev. as before, (S.1582, 3739, SNG BMC Black Sea 36-41 [Pl.II], 118-123 [Pl.V]). Off centred on obverse, otherwise very fine. (2)
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 61 (Lot 2593). An interesting similar pair from two separate cities separated by the Bosphorus Strait (Asia and Europe), who obviously employed the same die cutters for their coinages.
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