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E-Sale 70  7 May 2020
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Lot 11

Estimate: 50 GBP
Price realized: 340 GBP
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Thrace, Byzantion AR Drachm. Countermarked circa 235-220 BC on drachm in the name and types of Alexander III, circa 323-319 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress; c/m: prow right, 'ΠΥ above / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre. Stancomb, 2007, p. 27, 6 (this coin); Thompson, "A Counter-marked Hoard from. Büyükçekmece" in MN VI, 1954, 1. 4.06g, 17mm, 12h.

Fine.

From the William Stancomb Collection;
This coin published in W.M. Stancomb, Some Countermarked and Overstruck Hellenistic Coins from the Region of the Thracian Bosporus, The Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. 167 (2007);
Acquired from Beirne, 2000.
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