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Auction XIX  26-27 Mar 2020
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Lot 354

Estimate: 7500 GBP
Price realized: 48 000 GBP
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Crete, Gortyna AR Stater. Circa 330-270 BC. Europa seated half-right within tree, lifting her veil with her right hand, with her left hand embracing an eagle in her lap / Bull standing to right, head reverted to left. Svoronos, Numismatique 83 and pl. XV, 6 (same dies); SNG Lockett 2559 (same dies) = Pozzi 442 (same dies); BMC 29-30; Le Rider, Crétoises pl. XVIII, 22; SNG Copenhagen 443 (same obv. die). 11.68g, 26mm, 2h.

Near Extremely Fine; pleasant old cabinet tone.

From the David Freedman Collection;
Privately purchased from London Coin Galleries Ltd., 20 March 2015;
Ex private European Collection.
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