Lot 3551
Sale 85 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes
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Description
Phoenicia, Arados, (c.2nd century B.C.), silver drachm, (4.152 grams), struck **PQ* = year 89 = 171-170 B.C., obv. bee,in field to left and right **PQ* MC monograms, rev. stag standing to right, palm-tree in background to right **ARADI[WN]*, (cf.S.5989, BMC 148-149 [p.20], P. Kinns "Drachms of Ephesus" Num. Chron. 1999 No.4.21 [This Coin, illustrated Pl.11]). Bright, edge flaw, otherwise very fine, scarce.
Ex Walter Holt, Sydney, May 2003 and from the Lebanon Hoard 1997 deposited c.165 B.C. described in Num. Chron, 1999 (pp.60-62) (Coin 4.21, illustrated Pl.11).
- Estimate
- $250
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $0