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Auction 100  29-30 May 2017
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Lot 175

Estimate: 25 000 CHF
Price realized: 47 000 CHF
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Alexandrine Empire. Mazaios, satrap of Babylon, circa 331-328. Double daric, Babylon 331-328, AV 17.20 g. Baaltars seated half-l., head and torso facing, r. hand holding long sceptre l., holding ear of barley and bunch of grapes on vine, upon which stands an eagle r. with folded wings. Rev. Lion l., grasping the back of a bull recumbent l. and biting into its neck; all inside linear square frame within shallow incuse square. F. Holt & O. Bopearachchi, The Alexander Medallion (2011), note 106 (this coin). ibid. figs. 51–2 var. = Miho Museum-*, Treasures of Ancient Bactria (2002), 44 a–b var. (rev. type right).
Exceedingly rare, apparently only four specimens known of this type and two
of this variety. Struck on a very broad flan and good very fine

Ex Triton X, 2007, 412 and Triton XIX, 2016, 2073 sales. From the Adams collection.



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