Baldwin & Sons
Auction 100 27 September 2016
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ANCIENT COINS, GREEK COINS, Ionia, Phokaia (c.521-478 BC), Electrum Hekte, bearded head of Selinos facing, wearing an ivy-wreath, a small seal swimming upwards on left, rev quadripartite incuse square, 2.53g (Bodenstedt 67 (a/α), pl. 47 (this coin)). Small scrape on the obverse at one o'clock, excellent style, good very fine and very rare.
This coin published in 'Die Elektronmünzen von Phokaia und Mytilene', F. Bodenstedt, p.148, 67, illustrated on pl. 47.
ex G Kästner auction 4, 1973, lot 125
ex Numismatic Fine Arts, Auction V, Beverly Hills, 23-24 February 1978, lot 158
ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 21-22 June 1990, lot 502
ex Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, Baldwin/Markov/M&M, 4 January 2012, lot 521, sold for US$4680
Estimate: £2500-3000
This coin published in 'Die Elektronmünzen von Phokaia und Mytilene', F. Bodenstedt, p.148, 67, illustrated on pl. 47.
ex G Kästner auction 4, 1973, lot 125
ex Numismatic Fine Arts, Auction V, Beverly Hills, 23-24 February 1978, lot 158
ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 21-22 June 1990, lot 502
ex Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, Baldwin/Markov/M&M, 4 January 2012, lot 521, sold for US$4680
Estimate: £2500-3000