Lot 3390

Description

Ionia, Ephesos, (c.late 6th century B.C.), silver drachm, (3.440 grams), obv. bee with tendrils, coiled tendrils (volutes), no ethnic, dotted border, rev. crude incuse square, with a trace of a quadripartite lines, another (3.440 grams) similar with clearer quadripartite lines, (cf.S.3516, BMC -, cf.SNG Von Aulock 1824, Karwiese Group VI Series 1B-15 and 4 (p.174-5 and Plate 3], SNG Turkey 114, SNG Sweden I, 461, Traite -). Very fine and rare. (2)

Ex Walter Holt, Sydney, January 2002.