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Auction 3  27 Oct 2018
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Lot 166

Estimate: 350 CHF
Price realized: 1100 CHF
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LYDIA. Philadelphia. Philip I, 244-249. Hexassarion (Orichalcum, 36 mm, 16.67 g, 6 h), Aurelios Maximos Ioulianos, archon for the first time. AYT•K•M•IOYΛ •ΦΙΛΙΠΠOC Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip I to right, seen from behind. Rev. ЄΠI AYP MAΞIMOY IOYΛIANOY APX A ΦΛ NЄ/ΩKOPΩN - ΦIΛ/AΔЄ/ΛΦЄ/ΩN Youthful Herakles standing front, head to right, holding, with his left hand, the Nemean lion at one of its hind paws. BMC -. SNG Copenhagen -. SNG Leypold -. SNG München -. SNG von Aulock 8242 (same dies). Extremely rare. An impressive issue with an unusual rendering of the First Labor of Herakles. Somewhat smoothed, otherwise, good very fine.
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