Ancient Gold

Sale 72    26–28 Mar 2003   Wentworth Hotel   Sydney

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Lot 3201    Session 11 (9.30am Friday)    Ancient Gold

Estimate $800
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $600

LESBOS, Mytilene, c.450-338 B.C., electrum hekte (2.476 grams), Bodenstedt dates 447 B.C., obv. forepart of boar to right, rev. lion head to right within rectangular linear square, (cf.S.4243, Bodenstedt 41 (dies a/**a*, SNG Cop. 309 [same dies], BMC 31 [Pl.32.3 same dies]). Nearly very fine/good fine and rare.

Bodenstedt reports 32 examples of this type from all dies

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