Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 1731 Session 6 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $7,000
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CYPRUS, Euagoras I, King of Salamis, (411-374/3 B.C.), silver stater or double siglos, (11.10 grams), obv. head of bearded Herakles wearing lion skin head-dress to right, Cypriot letters around mostly off flan, rev. he goat seated right on dotted ground line above barley grain to right a kerykeion, (S.5806 [£2250], BMC 55 variety, Kraay/Hirmer 678 var., [similar dies], Kunstfreund 226 [realised 23,200 SFr.], Boston 2144). Struck on an irregular flan from a rusty obverse die, otherwise good extremely fine and very rare.
Ex Monnaies et Medailles, Basel, Sale 68, 15th April 1986 (lot 308 and realised 7,700 SFr.).
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