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Auction 106  9-10 May 2018
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Lot 291

Estimate: 2000 CHF
Price realized: 3250 CHF
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Idalium, Stasikypros, 460-445. 1/3 siglos circa 460-445 BC, AR 3.42 g. sa in Cypriot characters Sphinx, with curved wing, seated l. on tendril with bud and flower, raising r. foreleg. Rev. Lotus flower on two spiral tendrils; in l. field, ivy leaf and astragalos in r. Traité II 1250, pl. CXXXII, 7. BMC 20, pl. V, 13 (these dies). Tziambazis 44 (these dies). SNG Copenhagen 22 (these dies). Jameson 1265. Dewing 2525. Boston 2138.
Very rare and in unusually fine condition for the issue. Struck on a broad flan
and with a lovely old cabinet tone. Good very fine

Privately purchased in London from Coins & Antiquities LTD in April 1970.
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