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Lot 3494    Session 11 (9:30am Thursday)    Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $120
Bid at live.noble.com.au

ATTICA, Athens, (c.264-267 A.D.), AE 21, (5.19 g), obv. helmeted head of Athena to right, rev. **AQH NA IWN* around, garlanded bucranium with fillet between horns, hanging down at sides, (S.4856, Kroll, Athenian Agora Period VC 401, Sv, Pl. 99, No.26, [same dies]); Egypt, Alexandria, Aurelian and Vabalathus, (A.D. 270-275), billon tetradrachm, year 2 and 5 = A.D. 271-272, (7.39 g), obv. laureate draped and cuirassed bust of Aurelian to right, L B across, around traces of A K **L DOM AURHL*IANOC CEB, rev. L**E* across, diademed draped and cuirassed bust of Vabalathus to right, around traces of I A C OVABA**LLAOQ*C A**Q*HNV, (cf.S.4757, BMC 2387, Milne 4336, Koln 3061). Surface oxidation, weak in places, otherwise nearly very fine, and scarce for the first coin; second coin fine and rare. (2)

Ex Harlan J. Berk, Buy or Bid Sale 160, 13 August 2008, (lot 360) with ticket for first coin second from the Dr Charles E. Weber Collection with his ticket which he acquired 21 December 1958.

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