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Lot 86

Starting price: 650 CHF
Price realized: 7000 CHF
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MACEDON. Mende. Circa 510-480 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 16.88 g), c. 500. Ithyphallic ass walking to right, with a crow perching left on its back, pecking ass's rump. Rev. Quadripartite incuse in mill sail pattern. Noe, Mende -. SNG ANS 298 (this obverse die). This is only the second known example struck from this obverse die – the other, in the American Numismatic Society, is from the 1929 Benha hoard: IGCH 1640 (the reverse die is unrecorded). Surfaces slightly porous, otherwise, good very fine.

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