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Auction 86  24 May 2017
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Lot 30

Starting price: 9600 GBP
Price realized: 18 000 GBP
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Lesbos, Mytilene, silver tetradrachm, c. 160 BC, head of Zeus Ammon right wearing laurel wreath and ram's horn, rev., ΜΥΤΙΛΗ – ΝΑΩΝ, herm of Dionysos facing, bearded and wearing polos; in lower field, two monograms; all within ivy wreath, 16.74g, die axis 12.00, toned, very fine and extremely rare. This coin published: Coin Hoards VII, p. 51, 471, pl. LXIV, 2. Other references: cf. E. Babelon, Inventaire somaire de la collection Waddington, 1898, 1393, pl. 3, 8; Hunt Collection IV, Sotheby's New York, 19 June 1991, lot 334. Provenance: Tartous Hoard, 1987; Spink & Son Ltd, private purchase, 14 November 1989; Prospero Collection; The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, lot 498. (12000 - 18000 GBP)
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