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E-Sale 74  20 Aug 2020
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Lot 14

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 850 GBP
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Thrace, Byzantion AR Tetradrachm. Issue of Ptolemy I countermarked at Byzantion, circa 220-210 BC. Head of Ptolemy I right; c/m: Byzantion monogram / [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ] ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ, Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, EY-KΛ-A in left field. Stancomb, 2007, p. 26, 3 (this coin); for host coin cf. CPE 228 (Cyprus, from 294 BC). 12.05g, 26mm, 12h.

Very Fine. Oval banker's mark on obverse field.

From the William Stancomb Collection;
This coin published in William Stancomb, 'Some Countermarked and Overstruck Hellenistic Coins from the Region of the Thracian Bosporos (NC 167, 2007);
Ex Münz Zentrum Rheinland, Auction 134, 30 August -1 September 2006, lot 44.
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