Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3518 Session 11 (9:30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $700
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $620
CARIA, Knidos (Cnidos), (c.520-495 B.C.), silver drachm, (6.17 g), obv. forepart of lion to right, with usual die deteriation, rev. head of Aphrodite to left of fine archaic style, hair in lines and bound with plain diadem, all within incuse square, (S.3543, Cahn, Knidos No.33 [same dies Pl.2], Kraay-Hirmer 628 [Pl.185 same dies Berlin example], SNG Cop. 203 [same dies]). Light tone, good very fine and rare.
Ex Alan Jordan Collection and purchased from Noble Numismatics Sale 69 (lot 1800) and previously from Heritage Numismatic Auctions, Long Beach sale, February 2001 (lot 5023). Only 7 examples are known from these dies and these almost all in public collections. The reverse die is found on only 13 examples from three obverse dies. Left facing busts occur on only three dies for the whole Archaic coinage in this the earliest period of the coinage.
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