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Lot 3646    SESSION 17 (9.30AM FRIDAY 28TH JULY)    Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $1,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $850

ATTICA, Athens, silver tetradrachm, (129-128 B.C.) or revised date 97-96 B.C., (16.50 g), obv. head of Athena Parthenos to right, wearing triple crested Athenian helmet, ornamented with Pegasos, dotted border, rev. owl standing right, head facing on prostrate amphora, to right Pegasos to left, **A QE across, across and left **API STI WN*, to left **FI/LWN*, to left **HGI/[A]S*, below amphora **AP*, on amphora letter M, all within olive wreath, (cf.S.2555, Thompson 989 [new dies], cf.Munich Collection, HGC 4, 1602). Good very fine, toned, on a small flan, very rare.

Ex Superior Stamp and Coin auction Sale, May 31, 1999 (lot 917). part).
Type represented in Thompson 'The New Style Coinage of Athens' Thompson 979f from same dies. Thompson reports 118 known tetradrachms of these magistrates from 30 obverse and 70 reverse dies. There is a difference of 32 year less between Thompson and the suggested revised chronology. This would make this issue 97-96 B.C.

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