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Buy or Bid Sale 210  1 Apr 2020
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Lot 51

Starting price: 358 USD
Price realized: 550 USD
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Paeonia, Patraus. Tetradrachm; Paeonia, Patraus; 340-315 BC, Tetradrachm, 12.49g. Sear-1520 var. Obv: Laureate head of Apollo r. Rx: ?AT - 9A - oY around l. edge, Horseman with plumed helmet r., spearing fallen enemy who holds shield. Paeonian Hoard, Sotheby 1969, lot 276 (same dies). The P in the king's name is backwards.Struck on an immense flan. Struck at the same time as lots 49 and 50, and even deriving from the same hoard, but showing an archaic, almond-shaped eye rather than the more modern profile eye of the other two coins, perhaps because engraved by a less sophisticated, local die cutter. MS

Estimate: $550
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