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Auction 125  24-27 Nov 2020
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Lot 4578

Estimate: 500 AUD
Price realized: 340 AUD
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IONIAN ISLANDS, Chios, (c.435-425 B.C.), silver drachm (didrachm Sear), (7.84 g), obv. Sphinx seated to left, amphora before, grapes above, on circular raised shield, rev. quadripartite incuse square punch, (S.4594, N.Hardwick [PhD thesis] No.92.15 [p.244, obv. A92, rev. 15 [This Coin] notes as unique for this die combination, but noted for obverse die 35, ACNAC Dewing 2321, 2323-4 [Pl.114 same obverse dies], SNG Cop. 1543 [same obverse die], McClean Collection 8362 [p.166, Pl.291, 12, same obverse die]). Very fine and very scarce, unique for these dies.

Ex Glendining & Co, the B.R. Noble Collection, 12 November 1975 (lot 92), previously from the collection of Roy Sansom, Sydney Collector (Past President of the Australian Numismatic Society).
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