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NYINC Signature Sale 3061 7-8 Jan 2018
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BACTRIA. Early Hellenistic era. Sophytes (?) (ca. 325/305-294 BC). AR didrachm (17mm, 8.01 gm, 7h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 5/5. Imitating Athens. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves above brow plate and palmette on the bowl; grape bunch behind / ΑΘΕ, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind. HGC 12, 4 (this coin pictured, classified as "anonymous"). Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A. SNG ANS 5 (same reverse die). Rare! Well centered, crisply struck and lightly toned.
Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 608; Sotheby's Zurich (27 October 1993), lot 903.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 1200-1600 USD
BACTRIA. Early Hellenistic era. Sophytes (?) (ca. 325/305-294 BC). AR didrachm (17mm, 8.01 gm, 7h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 5/5. Imitating Athens. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves above brow plate and palmette on the bowl; grape bunch behind / ΑΘΕ, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind. HGC 12, 4 (this coin pictured, classified as "anonymous"). Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A. SNG ANS 5 (same reverse die). Rare! Well centered, crisply struck and lightly toned.
Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 608; Sotheby's Zurich (27 October 1993), lot 903.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 1200-1600 USD