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Auction 16  10 May 2018
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Lot 118

Estimate: 20 000 CHF
Price realized: 17 500 CHF
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Mysia. Kyzikos. Circa 386-362 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 24.8 mm, 15.24 g, 7 h). ΣΩΤΕΙΡΑ Head of Kore to left, wearing grain wreath, pendant earring, simple necklace and sphendone covered by a veil. Rev. ΚΥ - ΞΙ Lion's head to left, with open jaws and protruding tongue; below, tunny fish to left; to right, horizontal bunch of grapes. Sandstrom 102b (this coin). SNG Paris 398 (same dies = Sandstrom 102a). Attractive, well centered, lightly toned and of very fine late classical style. Extremely fine.
From the Ravenel Collection, USA, and from that of Baron Thyssen- Bornemisza and Dr. T. S. Kaplan, Numismatica Genevensis IX, 14 December 2015, 55, ex Nomos Fixed Price List, Winter-Spring 2008, 47 and Hess-Leu 31, 6 December 1966, 400.
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