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Auction 114 13-14 May 2020
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MYSIA, Lampsakos. Circa 394-350 BC. AV Stater (16mm, 8.41 g, 11h). Head of female (Sappho?) left, hair in sakkos, wearing laurel wreath / Forepart of Pegasos flying right. Adams I 74; Leu 20, lot 118; Münzen und Medaillen AG 53, lot 89; otherwise unpublished. Some smoothing and scattered marks, struck with worn obverse die. VF. Extremely rare, one of four known.
From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Roma XIII (23 March 2017), lot 290.
Both the Leu and M&M catalogs speculate that the obverse portrait is that of the female Greek poet Sappho, a native of Lesbos, and may have served as a model for the similar female head on an issue of hektai from Phokaia (cf. Bodenstedt em. 102).
From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Roma XIII (23 March 2017), lot 290.
Both the Leu and M&M catalogs speculate that the obverse portrait is that of the female Greek poet Sappho, a native of Lesbos, and may have served as a model for the similar female head on an issue of hektai from Phokaia (cf. Bodenstedt em. 102).