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Triton XX Sessions 1 & 2  10 January 2017
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Lot 247

Estimate: 7500 USD
Price realized: 9000 USD
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MYSIA, Parion. Circa 165-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 15.77 g, 12h). Draped bust of Demeter right, veiled, and wearing grain ears in hair / Apollo Aktaios, drapery hanging from waist, standing left, holding patera in extended right hand, left hand placed on top of kithara to right, which is standing on omphalos; lit altar to inner left; AΠOΛΛΩNOΣ AKTAIOY to right and left, ΠAPIANΩN/ΠOΛYKΛH[Σ] in two lines in exergue. Meadows, Parion 3 = SNG Lewis 829 (same obv. die); Meadows, Parion 4 = SNG BN 1401; Meadows, Parion 5 var. (magistrate). Near EF, lightly toned, small scuff on cheek, minor roughness on reverse. Extremely rare, the fourth and finest known, the other three in public collections (BM, BN, and Fitzwilliam).

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