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Electronic Auction 466  22 Apr 2020
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Lot 232

Estimate: 500 USD
Price realized: 6500 USD
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EGYPT, Achaemenid Province. Artaxerxes III Okhos. As Pharaoh of Egypt, 343/2-338/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 16.88 g, 9h). Imitating Athens. Head of Athena right, with profile eye, wearing earring and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing right, head facing; to left, olive spray and crescent above ZHK (in Aramaic); two-line script of uncertain type to right. Van Alfen Type IVa, 10 var. (O10/R– [unlisted rev. die]); Price, More 154 (same obv. die); L. Anderson & P.G. van Alfen, "A fourth century BCE hoard from the Near East" in AJN 20, 42–3. Toned, two test cuts. VF. Very rare.

From the David Wray Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 182 (20 February 2008), lot 102.
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