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Triton XIX Sessions 1 & 2  5 January 2016
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Lot 338

Estimate: 5000 USD
Price realized: 3000 USD
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KINGS of CHARACENE. Apodakos. Circa 110/09-104/03 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 15.87 g, 12h). Dated SE 209 (104/3 BC). Diademed head right, wearing beard; all within bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ down right, ΑΓΓΟΔΑΚOY down left, Herakles seated left on rock outcropping, holding club set on right knee in right hand and resting left hand on rock face; monogram to outer left; ΘΣ (date) in exergue. Alram 496; BMC, p. cxcvii and pl. LV, 2 var. (date); De Morgan 2 and pl. XL, 3 var. (same); Sunrise –; DCA 480. Near EF, areas of light toning, hint of porosity. Extremely rare date. Overstruck on an Athena Nikephoros issue, possibly of Antiochos VII.

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