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E-Sale 67  6 Feb 2020
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Lot 583

Estimate: 1200 GBP
Price realized: 1200 GBP
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Baktria, 'Athenian Series' AR Tetradrachm. Uncertain mint in the Oxus region, circa 261-239/8 BC. Attic standard. Head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl; monogram behind / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig, crescent and grape bunch behind, AΘE before. Roma XIV, 356; Cf. Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; Mitchiner -; N&A -, cf. 13-17 (different monogram); SNG ANS -. 17.12g, 23mm, 6h.

Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; one of only three known examples.

From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.
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