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Auction 20 10 Jul 2020
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Sidon. 107/6 BC-AD 43/4. Tetradrachm (Silver, 28 mm, 14.02 g, 1 h), year 6 = 106/105 BC. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche to right, wearing pearl necklace. Rev. ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ Eagle, with closed wings and palm branch over his right shoulder, standing to left on galley prow; in field to left L? over monogram. BMC 102. Rare. A remarkably fine example, toned, struck in high relief and very attractive. Minor marks, otherwise, good extremely fine.
From a European collection, and from the Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, 618, originally acquired from Spink & Sons Ltd., London, on 29 September 1988.
Sidon. 107/6 BC-AD 43/4. Tetradrachm (Silver, 28 mm, 14.02 g, 1 h), year 6 = 106/105 BC. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche to right, wearing pearl necklace. Rev. ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ Eagle, with closed wings and palm branch over his right shoulder, standing to left on galley prow; in field to left L? over monogram. BMC 102. Rare. A remarkably fine example, toned, struck in high relief and very attractive. Minor marks, otherwise, good extremely fine.
From a European collection, and from the Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, 618, originally acquired from Spink & Sons Ltd., London, on 29 September 1988.