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Lot 3321 SESSION 11 (Friday at 9.30am) Greek
Estimate $150
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SOLD $130
CILICIA, Aegae, (60/50 - 47 B.C.), AE 14, bronze "third" (2.326 grams), obv. wreathed head of Herakles to right, within dotted border, rev. club and taenia, across **AIGE AIWN above, monogram of TAPI to right, (S.-, SNG Levante 1647 [This Coin, Plate 113], H.Bloesch "Hellenistic Coins of Aegeae" ANS Museum Notes 27 No.76 [This Coin and illustrated plate 17, the finest of the two known examples]). Dark green patina, nearly extremely fine and very rare.
Ex Noble Numismatics Auction Sale 83 (lot 3293) and from the Edoardo Levante Collection. Bloesch only records one other coin, not as fine as the above example and that piece was the example in the Pozzi Collection.
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