Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 936 Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $700
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SOLD $600
IONIA, Ephesus, (390-330 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (15.1 grams), obv. bee with straight wings dividing E - **F, rev. forepart of kneeling stag to right, looking back, palm tree behind, to right magistrate's name **FWKULOS (Phokylos), (cf.S.4371, magistrate not noted in Munsterberg). Off centred on the obverse, otherwise good very fine and very rare, the magistrate not previously recorded.
The issue with curved wings is much rarer than the straight wing issue, BMC attributes this straight wing type as later than the curved wing and places a date of post 387 B.C. Ephesus used the Rhodian standard (about 15.3 grams for the tetradrachm), during the fourth century B.C.
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