Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 4583 SESSION 11 (2PM FRIDAY 27TH NOVEMBER) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $700
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $440
CARIA, Knidos (Cnidos), (c.520-495 B.C.), silver drachm, (6.25 g), obv. forepart of lion to right with open mouth, usual die deterioration, rev. head of Aphrodite to right of fine archaic style, with hair bound with plain diadem, all within incuse square, (S.3543, Cahn, Knidos No.42 [same dies Pl.3] obv.23, rev.31; BMC example [same dies = J.L. Myres 1922]). Light tone, very fine and very rare, pair of dies.
Ex Giesserner Munzhandlung, Munich, Auction Sale 90, October 12, 1998 (lot 260).
A very rare combination of dies with the reverse die starting to break up causing a gross deformity of the head. Cahn reports only two examples published from these dies.
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