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Auction 15  22 Oct 2017
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Lot 155

Estimate: 750 CHF
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Ionia. Phokaia. Circa 387-326 BC. Hekte (Electrum, 10 mm, 2.54 g), c. 360s. Youthful male head to left, with short, curly hair; behind head, petasos. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt 83. A very rare type with a very attractive head. Good very fine.

From the Molard Collection, Switzerland.
Whether this is actually a separate type, with an anonymous male head, or whether it is a variant of Bodenstedt 82, with a head of Hermes, is uncertain. Bodenstedt only knew of a single example (SNG Munich 803), and it might be that within an issue with the head of Hermes, a variant portrait was used for administrative or other reasons; it could be that a head wearing a petasos was from the first semester of the year, and the head without was struck in the second.

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