Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XII 29 September 2016
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Lesbos, Mytilene EL Hekte. Circa 357-326 BC. Laureate head of youthful Apollo three-quarters facing / Head of an Amazon to right wearing ornamented helmet with cheek guards up. Bodenstedt 64.3; Traité II, pl. 160, 38; BMC 94, pl. 34, 8. 2.55g, 10mm, 12h.
Good Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare, apparently one of only seven known, and in exceptional state of preservation.
The obverse of this beautiful coin was inspired by the remarkable and widely praised 'Parthenon Group' tetradrachms of Amphipolis issued during that city's short-lived war with Philip II of Macedon (see Kurt Regling, ZfN 33 (1922), p. 48, Anm. 2 and p. 60). It is a direct stylistic copy of this brief issue, which has been described as 'the most beautiful of all the facing-head tetradrachms of Amphipolis and one of the prettiest of all ancient Greek coins'.
Good Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare, apparently one of only seven known, and in exceptional state of preservation.
The obverse of this beautiful coin was inspired by the remarkable and widely praised 'Parthenon Group' tetradrachms of Amphipolis issued during that city's short-lived war with Philip II of Macedon (see Kurt Regling, ZfN 33 (1922), p. 48, Anm. 2 and p. 60). It is a direct stylistic copy of this brief issue, which has been described as 'the most beautiful of all the facing-head tetradrachms of Amphipolis and one of the prettiest of all ancient Greek coins'.