Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Sale 130    26–29 Jul 2022   Dixson Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 4227    SESSION 16 (9.30AM FRIDAY 29TH JULY)    Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $1,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au

CORINTHIA, uncertain mint, (c.300 B.C.), silver stater, (8.51 g), obv. Pegasos flying to left, uncertain below, (Maybe **L* = Leucas); rev. head of Athena to left, wearing Corinthian helmet, behind neck a guard axe, (cf.S.2629, Calciati 494/2 [same obv. die], Ravel 1119 [both noted as a barbarous issue], BCD Corinth 140, HGC 4, -). Toned, struck from slightly worn obverse dies, otherwise nearly extremely fine, very scarce.

Ex Joseph Lepczyk Auction Sale 50, 26-27 November 1982 (lot 9861); the from Numismatik Lanz Munchen, Sale 105, November 26, 2001 (lot 139) from the BCD Collection with his and other tickets and collector's packet.
An almost identical example from the same dies and condition was sold by Leu Numismatik Web Auction 18, 18 December 2021 (lot 952), it realised 550 SFr (= US $596); another in Leu Numismatik Web Auction 17, August 14, 2021, (lot 894) realised 1300 SFr. (= US $1408).

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    Estimate $1,000

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