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Auction XIX  26-27 Mar 2020
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Lot 93

Estimate: 1000 GBP
Price realized: 1900 GBP
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Tauric Chersonesos, Chersonesos AR Drachm. Menestra, magistrate, circa 225-200 BC. Laureate bust of Artemis Parthenos, bow and quiver at shoulder / XEP to right of Artemis Parthenos left, quiver at shoulder, bow in left hand and striking stag with spear; MENECTPA in exergue. SNG Stancomb 484 (this coin) = SNG Lockett 1076 (this coin) = Ch. Giel ZRAO 7, 1895, pl. 23, 17 (this coin); SNG Moskau, SHM 3403; SNG BM Black Sea 791 (same dies); Anokhin 136; cf. HGC 3.2, 2067. 2.37g, 17mm, 11h.

Very Fine. Very Rare.

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);
This coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume III, Lockett Collection (London, 1938-1949);
This coin published in C. Giel, "Description of Coins which have entered my collection in 1892 and 1893" (in Russian), in: Zapiski Russkogo Arkheologicheskogo Obshestva VII (1895);
Ex Richard Cyril Lockett Collection Part VI, Glendining & Co., 12 February 1958, lot 991;
Ex Grand Duke Alexander Michailovich Collection.
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