Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 5039 Session 16 (9.30am Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $300
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CARIA, Caunos (Kaunos), Uncertain ruler, (c.490-470 B.C.), silver stater, (11.602 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.5, [dies of obv. 5, rev.3, 1 known, Pl.47, 5, Hyla Troxell 'Winged Carians' in Essays Thompson, No.4 [same dies]). Dumpy flan, fine or better and very rare.
The attribution of these anonymous archaic coins has been given to Caunos by Konuk in a detailed argument on the reading of Carian script on later issues of similar type to this archaic issue.
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