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Web Auction 8  29-30 Jun 2019
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Lot 411

Starting price: 1000 CHF
Price realized: 1300 CHF
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CARIA. Antioch ad Maeandrum. Circa 85-65/60 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 28 mm, 16.11 g, 12 h), Menephron, magistrate. Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΜΕΝΕΦΡΩΝ Eagle, with closed wings, standing left; behind, cornucopiae; all within maeander pattern. BMC -. HN -. Leschhorn, Lexicon of Greek Coin Inscriptions -. McClean -. SNG Copenhagen -. SNG Lockett -. SNG von Aulock 2417 (same obverse die). Thonemann (forthcoming) prov. Group C, 12.b (O14/R24, this coin). Weber -. Winterthur -. Of the highest rarity, only the second known tetradrachm of Menephron and the first from this reverse die. A few deposits on the obverse and the reverse a bit weak, otherwise, nearly very fine.
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