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Auction 18  5 May 2019
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Lot 214

Estimate: 2500 CHF
Price realized: 2400 CHF
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CYPRUS. Paphos. Onasioikos, circa 450-440 BC. Stater (Silver, 22.5 mm, 11.14 g, 11 h). Bull standing to left on line of pellets above a line of bead and reel decoration; above, winged solar disk; to left, ankh; dotted border. Rev. 𐠙𐠃 𐠪𐠞 ( = pa-si /o-na, 'King Onasioikos' in Cypriote syllabary). Eagle standing left; to left, ankh; all within dotted border within incuse square. BMC -. Gulbenkian 809 = Jameson 2604. Extremely rare, one of half a dozen known examples. With a sharp and most attractive reverse. Struck from a slightly worn obverse die, otherwise, extremely fine.
From a Bavarian collection, formed beginning in the 1960s and ending in the 1990s.
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