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E-Sale 65  19 Dec 2019
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Lot 180

Estimate: 200 GBP
Price realized: 700 GBP
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Bithynia, Kalchedon AR Diobol. Chian standard. Circa 378/6-357 BC. Youthful female(?) head left, hair tied in knot behind / Wheel of four spokes, Κ-Α-Λ-X within. SNG Stancomb 13 (this coin); SNG BM Black Sea 90-9; HGC 7, 515. 0.86g, 9mm.

Very Fine. Exceedingly Rare; the early wheel-series of Kalchedon is represented in CoinArchives by only three coins of different types, and no other diobols have appeared at auction in over 20 years at least.

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 William Veres, 9 September 1988.
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