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Auction XVII  28 Mar 2019
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Lot 580

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 420 GBP
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Parthia(?), 'Eagle series' AR Drachm. Hekatompylos(?), circa 246/5-239/8 BC. Local 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; uncertain symbol behind / Eagle standing left, head right. Roma XV, 327; Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 2A; SNG ANS -; Mitchiner -; N&A -; Roma XVI -; cf. CNG e304, 185 (hemidrachm). 3.36g, 14mm, 6h.

Near Extremely Fine. The third known example.

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