Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 1909 Session 6 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $500
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SOLD $240
CARIA, Kaunos, Uncertain ruler, (c.490-470 B.C.), silver stater, (11.548 grams), obv. Iris with curved wings and outstretched hands in kneeling-running position to right, rev. rough triangular shape on crude incuse square, (S.-, Koray Konuk 'The Early Coinage of Kaunos' in Essays Price, No.14, [similar dies to obv. 12, rev.11, 2 known, Pl.47], Hyla Troxell 'Winged Carians' in Essays Thompson, cf.No.10 [similar dies]; Giessener Munzhandlung Sale 96 7 June 1999 [lot 195 same dies]). Off centred slightly on the reverse, very dark tone, otherwise nearly very fine and a very rare pair of dies.
The attribution of these annonymous archaic coins has been given to Kaunos by Konuk in a detailed argument on the reading of Carian script on the later issues of similar type the above archaic issue. The dies used on this coins are very different to those noted by Konuk.
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