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Lot 4087    SESSION 16 (9.30AM FRIDAY 31ST MARCH)    Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $90
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $80

ITALY, Campania, Hyria, (c.400-395 B.C.), silver stater or nomos, (6.63 g), obv. head of helmeted Athena to right, crested helmet, with owl and wreath on helmet, rev. man-headed bull to right, above [Y]DINAI, single exergue line, (cf.S.294, Rutter 67 [obv. die 32, rev. die 61], SNG ANS 255 [same dies], McClean 218 [same dies]). Struck from a worn obverse die, otherwise fine and very rare.

Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 78 (lot 4923) and Terry Naughton Collection.

Only 13 examples are known from this die combination and nearly all in Museum collections.

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