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E-Sale 40  28 Oct 2017
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Lot 285

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 650 GBP
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Baktria, 'Athenian Series' AR Tetradrachm. Stasanor, satrap(?). Uncertain mint in the Oxus region, circa 321-245 BC. Attic standard. Head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl; [ΣTA behind, MNA below] / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig, crescent and grape bunch behind, AΘE before. Roma XII, 346 (same dies); Bopearachchi, Sophytes -; Mitchiner -; SNG ANS -; N&A 1-3; Spink 3014, 124 = G&M 48, 604. 16.80g, 25mm, 12h.

Very Fine. Extremely Rare; only the sixth known example.

From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.
Extremely Rare ΣTA MNA Tetradrachm
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