Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 3277 Session 11 (9.30am Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $600
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $320
PAMPHYLIA, Aspendos, (370-330 B.C.), silver stater, (10.928 grams), obv. two naked athletes as wrestlers grasping each other by the hands, N(reversed) F between, dotted border, rev. slinger advancing to right about to discharge his sling, triskeles before, behind **ESTFEDIIUS, all within square dotted square, (S.5390, cf.SNG Von Aulock 4544-4570). Well centred, slighty weak in places, otherwise nearly extremely fine and with unpublished letters in obverse field.
Ex Dr. Colin Burnside Collection, and previously from Noble Numismatics Sale 62 (lot 1914). Aspendos was an Argive colony, located on the navigatable river Eurymedon. It was an important port and naval base. These staters with Olympic and war themes (wrestlers and slinger) are of an outstanding style with good active poses. The slinger on the reverse is regarded as a canting type, since the word for slinger **sjendonhths* resembles the city name. The triskeles was the civic badge and occupies a prominent position on the reverse. Today these coins are often used as examples of Olympic Games activities and consequently are sought after.
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