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E-Sale 46  5 Jun 2018
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Lot 359

Estimate: 250 GBP
Price realized: 260 GBP
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Baktria, 'Athenian Series' AR Didrachm. Uncertain mint in the Oxus region, circa 261-239/8 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 / Owl standing right, head facing; behind, kerykeion, prow, and grape bunch on vine with leaf, AΘE before. Roma XIV, 362-3; Bopearachchi, Sophytes -; SNG ANS -; N&A -; Mitchiner -; Roma Numismatics XIV, 363 (same dies). 8.04g, 21mm, 6h.

Very Fine. Extremely Rare, one of six known examples.

From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.
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