Lot 5032

Sale 78 · Important Australian & World Coins & Banknotes, The Lampard Collection, The James Atkinson Collection

Description

Mysia, Pergamon, (c.123-104 B.C.), silver cistophoric tetradrachm, (12.192 grams), obv. cista mystica containing serpent, all within ivy wreath, rev. bow in case between two coiled serpents, to left monogram of **PER*, above BO, to right serpent entwined thyrsus, (cf.S.3948, Kleiner [ANSMN 23], Type 10, example in Berlin, Pinder 94, SNG von Aulock 7467). Very fine and rare.

Ex Glendining's, London, December 8, 1981 (lot 64).

Estimate
$200
Result Status
Sold
Prices Realised
$90

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