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Auction 125  24-27 Nov 2020
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Lot 4583

Estimate: 700 AUD
Price realized: 440 AUD
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CARIA, Knidos (Cnidos), (c.520-495 B.C.), silver drachm, (6.25 g), obv. forepart of lion to right with open mouth, usual die deterioration, rev. head of Aphrodite to right of fine archaic style, with hair bound with plain diadem, all within incuse square, (S.3543, Cahn, Knidos No.42 [same dies Pl.3] obv.23, rev.31; BMC example [same dies = J.L. Myres 1922]). Light tone, very fine and very rare, pair of dies.

Ex Giesserner Munzhandlung, Munich, Auction Sale 90, October 12, 1998 (lot 260).
A very rare combination of dies with the reverse die starting to break up causing a gross deformity of the head. Cahn reports only two examples published from these dies.
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