Lot 3579

Description

Thraco-Macedonian Tribe, The Derrones, c.475-450 B.C., silver dodecadrachm (35.58 g), obv. male driver seated in ox cart moving to right, holding [goad in raised right hand] and reins in left, a crested Corinthian helmet in field above ox, plain under ox, with dotted border base, rev. triskeles of human legs, (S.1315 [£6500], Cf. Topalov 9; HPM pl. I, 14 = Trait‚ I 1449, pl. XLIV, 8; AMNG III/2, 6; SNG ANS 931; cf.Svoronos 13 [p.8], pl. 1, 14 [similar dies]. cf.AMNG III/2 [p.56, 5] and pl. xxv, 16 [similar dies]). Svoronos reported one example from these similar dies (these of lighter weight), reverse weakly struck as typical for this series, obverse with porosity and some weakness, otherwise about very fine and very rare, these dies unpublished.

Ex Maurice Collection and Noble Numismatics Sale 90 (lot 3257).
The Derrones were a Thraco-Macedonian tribe that lived in the Pangei (Pernar) mountains, on the river Strymon in Macedon. Types exist with the ox cart going to left and others to the right. Recent hoards and other earlier finds suggest less than 100 of these large silver similar type coins survive today.