Baldwin & Sons
Auction 100 27 September 2016
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ANCIENT COINS, GREEK COINS, Lesbos, Unattributed Early Mint (c.500-450 BC), Billon Stater, confronted heads of two calves, as if to give the impression of a single facing head, an olive-tree between them, rev incuse square with an uneven surface, 11.05g (BMC 46; SNG Copenhagen 285; SNG von Aulock 1682). Dark tone, very fine.
The obverse of this issue presents an interesting optical illusion, that of the two confronted calves' heads appearing as one facing head.
ex Ars Classica auction XIII, Lucerne, 27-29 June 1928, lot 850
ex J Vinchon, Nouveau Drouot, Paris, 9-10 December 1983, lot 144
ex Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, Baldwin/Markov/M&M, 4 January 2012, lot 488, sold for US$2925
Estimate: £1500-1800
The obverse of this issue presents an interesting optical illusion, that of the two confronted calves' heads appearing as one facing head.
ex Ars Classica auction XIII, Lucerne, 27-29 June 1928, lot 850
ex J Vinchon, Nouveau Drouot, Paris, 9-10 December 1983, lot 144
ex Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, Baldwin/Markov/M&M, 4 January 2012, lot 488, sold for US$2925
Estimate: £1500-1800