Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 3327 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $1,400
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CARIA, Cnidos, (c.520-495 B.C.), silver drachm, (6.198 grams), obv. forepart of lion to right, with usual die deteriation, rev. head of Aphrodite to right of fine archaic style, hair in lines and bound with plain diadem, all within incuse square, (S.3543 [£450], Cahn, (Knidos) No.49 [same dies], McClean 8470 [same dies], SNG Cop. 215 [same dies]). Light tone, good very fine and rare.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 61 (lot 2648). Only 20 examples are known from these dies and these almost all in public collections. The reverse die is one of only 15 used for the whole Archaic coinage in this the earliest period of the coinage.
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