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Auction 84  20 May 2015
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Lot 613

Estimate: 8000 CHF
Price realized: 6700 CHF
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Greek Coins
Islands off Thrace, Samothrace

Hemidrachm. Circa 500-475, AR 1.94 g. Sphinx seated l., raising r. foreleg. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. SNG Ashmolean 3638. Schwabacher, Transactions of the International Numismatic Congress London 1936, 110, 2. SNG Lockett 1125 (these dies).
Very rare. Perfectly struck and centred on a full flan and with a
wonderful old cabinet tone. Good extremely fine
Ex Dr. Busso Peus 250, 1954, 225 and New York IV, 2002, 109 sales. From the Lejeune collection and from the Kiourpet 1930 Hoard (IGCH 97, 696).

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