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Auction 95-96  24 Oct 2018
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Lot 320

Estimate: 6000 GBP
Price realized: 7500 GBP
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Island off Thrace, Samothrace, hemidrachm, c. 500-480 BC, sphinx with curled wing seated left with right foreleg raised, rev., quadripartite incuse square, 1.94g (SNG Lockett 1209, this coin; W. Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, Transactions of the International Numismatic Congress, London, 1936, 110, 2e, this piece; Jameson 2442, same dies), toned, extremely fine and extremely rare. Provenance: Kiourpet hoard, 1930 (IGCH 696); R.C. Lockett collection, Glendining, 12 February 1958, lot 1125; Roma VIII, 28 September 2014, lot 496.
(6000-8000 GBP)
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