Lot 3115

Description

Ionia, Ephesos, (c.late 6th century B.C.), silver drachm, (3.21 g), obv. bee with coiled tendrils (volutes), no ethnic, dotted border, rev. crude incuse square, with a trace of a quadripartite lines, another (3.44g), (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 -); another, (c.546 - 500 B.C.), silver quarter obol or 1/48th stater, (0.18 g), obv. bee, curved wings, E and **F* with dotted border, rev. eagle head to right with full ethnic **E F*, (S.-, BMC 24, Karwiese Group IV, types II and V, SNG Cop. 211, SNG Turkey 126-9, 134, cf.Traite 1871). Very fine and fine, both rare. (2)

Ex George Mihailuk Collection, first from Romanorum 22.5.1998, second from M.R.Roberts, 3.11.2007.