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Auction 15  22 Oct 2017
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Lot 91

Estimate: 2500 CHF
Price realized: 2000 CHF
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Thessaly. Ainianes. Hypata. Circa 80s-40s BC. Trihemidrachm (Silver, 22 mm, 7.59 g, 12 h), under the magistrate Leukidas, 1st century BC. Head of Athena to right wearing Attic helmet decorated with tendril, pegasus and four horse protomes. Rev. ΑΙΝΙΑΝΩΝ ΛΕΥΚΙΔΑ Phemios as a slinger, nude but for chlamys over his shoulder and sword in scabbard, shooting sling to right; behind, leaning against his right leg, two spears; to right, wheat ear on stalk. Callataÿ, Argent, p.129, 19 (this coin). Lovely dark toning. Good very fine.

Ex Nomos 7, 15 May 2013, 68 and from the BCD Collection, Triton XV, 4 January 2012, 37, ex Numismatic Fine Arts XVI, 2 December 1985, 157, and from the collection of T. H. Prowe, Egger 40, 2 May 1912, 787.

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