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Electronic Auction 348  8 April 2015
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PHOENICIA, Marathos. 199/8-169/8 BC. Æ (20mm, 6.95 g, 1h). Dated CY 86 (174/173 BC). Laureate bust of Hermes right; caduceus behind shoulder / Marathos standing left, holding aphlaston; date to left. Duyrat, Ateliers 234-51; HGC 10, 194; DCA 832. VF, dark green patina, some light smoothing.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 108.

Righetti included this coin in his Ptolemaic collection, as Svoronos erroneously cataloged it as belonging to the reign of Ptolemy III, with his portrait as Hermes on the obverse.
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