Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3969 SESSION 16 (9.30AM FRIDAY 31ST MARCH) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $150
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $120
BITHYNIA, Kalchedon, (c.340-320 B.C.), silver siglos (Persian standard), (5.15 g), obv. bull standing to left, on corn-ear, above **KALC* rev. quadripartite incuse square of mill-sail pattern, (S.3738, SNG BMC Black Sea 112ff. [siglos], SNG von Aulock 482, HGC 7, 517). Good very fine, well centred, minor test cut on obverse, rare.
Ex Giesssener Munzhandlung, Dieter Gorny, c.1995. ^A similar piece for the twin city (Byzantium) on the other side of the Bosphorus in this sale.
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