Ancient Gold - Greek
Lot 2677 SESSION 12 (11.30AM THURSDAY 25TH NOV) Ancient Gold - Greek
Estimate $800
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SOLD $900
LESBOS, Mytilene, electrum sixth stater or hekte, (450-445 B.C.), (2.50 g), obv. youth head to right, wearing a diadem, rev. Corinthian helmet to right, **S* to right all within square frame, (cf.S.4247, Bodenstedt 40 [p.224-5, Pl.19, 53, reports 8 specimens known from only 4 obverse dies and 4 reverse dies, these dies obv. b, rev. **b*], BMC 55 [Pl.XXXII, 24], De Luynes, Paris 2558 [same dies], Boston MFA 1699, Weber 5612). Very fine/fine and rare.
Ex Munzen & Medaillen, Deutschland, Auction 9, October 4-5, 2001 (lot 234 illustrated) and previously from Munzen & Medaillen list No.591, Nov-Dec. 1995 (No.11, 330 SFr. illustrated).
Only one example from these dies noted by Bodenstedt.
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