Lot 3292

Description

Euboia, Eretria, (500-465 B.C.), silver hemidrachm, (1.884 grams), obv. cow standing left, scratching head with foot, rev. octopus in incuse square, (cf.S.1824 [£200], BMC -, Traite -, ACNAC Dewing 1545, Asyut hoard 256, Lanz Auction Sale Catalogue 111, [lot 323, realised 4400 euros +]). Good fine/good very fine, struck from worn obverse die and very rare.

Ex Noble Numismatics Auction Sale 80 (lot 3183) and previously from the BCD Collection (with his ticket) and previously from Sotheby's London, May 12, 1983, (lot 203, £110+) being from the collection of J.A. Spranger of Trinity College, Cambridge and Florence.