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Auction XXI  24-25 Mar 2021
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Lot 109

Estimate: 50 000 GBP
Price realized: 40 000 GBP
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Euboia, Eretria AR Tetradrachm. Circa 180-160 BC. Epiteles, magistrate. Bust of Artemis to right, hair tied with a ribbon behind, wearing necklace, pendant earring and chiton fastened on far shoulder with ornamental pin; bow and quiver over her left shoulder / Bull standing to right, head facing and adorned with fillet, EPETPIEΩN above, EΠITEΛHΣ in exergue; all within laurel wreath. BCD Euboia 343 (this coin); SNG Lockett 1794 (same obv. die); N. Waggoner, "Coins of the W. P. Wallace Collection," Museum Notes 25 (1980), p. 9; Regling, ZfN 38, 1928, 57 (same); Mørkholm, Early Hellenistic Coinage, pl. XLI, 612 (same); HGC 4, 1503. 16.64g, 33mm, 7h.

Extremely Fine; beautiful light cabinet tone. Extremely Rare; one of only two known examples.

Ex Peter Guber Collection, Freeman & Sear, Manhattan Sale II, 4 January 2011, lot 43;
Ex Gemini LLC, Auction IV, 8 January 2008, lot 120;
Ex BCD Collection, Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 111, 25 November 2002, lot 343.
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