Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3333 SESSION 17 (11.30AM FRIDAY 1ST APRIL) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $200
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SOLD $360
ANCIENT GREEK COINS INCLUDING LOKRIS, Lokris Opuntia, (338-316 B.C.), silver triobol, (2.68 g), obv. Persephone wreathed head to right wearing single pendant earring and necklace, rev. Ajax son of Oileus, advancing right, with sword and shield decorated with a serpent and sea horses, kantharos between legs, around **OPONTIWN*, (S.2330, BCD 99 [NAC Auction 55], de Luynes 1958, cf. SNG Lockett 1700) (illustrated); AE of Alexander the Great (S.6739) [2]; Phrygia, Apameia, (after 133 B.C.), AE 20, (7.39, 8.43 g), obv. helmeted bust of Athena to right, rev. eagle alighting upon meander pattern between caps of the dioscuri and stars, **APAMEWN above, magistrates names below, (cf.S.5120); Pontos, Amisos, (3), (S.3642, 3643 [3]); Augustus Macedonia, Philippi, obv. Victory standing left on base, holding wreath and palm frond, VIC AVG, rev. three military standards; (COHOR) PRAE, (SNG ANS 674 [time of Augustus]); these next three from Baldwin's with tickets: Sicily, Mamertini, AE 26 (BMC 39); Egypt, Ptolemy VI, AE 19 (S.7901); Ionia, Ephesus, Severus Alexander AE 22, (cf.BMC 312); Troas, Alexandria, Valerian, rev. COL AVG TROAD horse feeding to right; (Bellinger A437); others (3) one holed. Mostly fine a few better, several scarce. (18)
Ex Dr V.J.A. Flynn Collection.
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Ex Jonathan Cohen Collection.
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