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Auction XVIII  29 Sep 2019
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Lot 288

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 1500 GBP
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Moesia, Istros AR Hemistater. Circa 420-390 BC. Milesian standard. Two young male heads facing, side by side, one upright, the other inverted / Sea-eagle to left, clutching dolphin in its talons; IΣTPI above. SNG Stancomb 135 (this coin); SNG BM Black Sea 225 (same obverse die). 6.95g, 17mm, 12h.

Near Extremely Fine; fine late archaic style, attractive old cabinet tone. Very Rare.

From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000);
Acquired from Spink & Son Ltd. for £500, 1984.
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