Lot 3402

Description

Ionia, Ephesos, (c.500-480 B.C.), silver drachm, (3.240, 3.166, grams), obv. bee with tendrils, coiled tendrils (volutes), no ethnic, dotted border, rev. crude incuse square, with a clearer quadripartite lines, another a diobol similar (1.106 grams), (cf.S.3516, BMC -, cf.SNG Von Aulock 1824, Karwiese Group VI Series 2A and 2B (p.176-8 and Plate 3], SNG Turkey 120, 122, 124, SNG Cop. 208-9, Traite 1866). First with dumpy flan, second with broad flan, fine or better and scarce. (3)

Ex Walter Holt, Sydney, January 2002.