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Auction XVIII  29 Sep 2019
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Lot 495

Estimate: 4000 GBP
Price realized: 3200 GBP
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Bruttium, Rhegion AR Tetradrachm. Circa 435-425 BC. Facing lion's head; grape bunch to right / Male figure (Iokastos, or Aristaios) seated to left, head right, holding sceptre in left hand and resting right elbow on knees; RECINOΣ(retrograde) to left; all within laurel wreath. Herzfelder 51 (D22/R42); SNG Lloyd 682 (same rev. die); de Luynes 785 (same dies); McClean 1864 (same dies); HN Italy 2488. 17.36g, 28mm, 6h.

Good Very Fine. Extremely Rare; the only reverse die recorded by Herzfelder depicting the male figure looking backward and no others (except this coin) on CoinArchives.

From the collection of a Photographer;
Ex Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 100, 21 June 2005, lot 6.
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