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Auction XXII  7-8 Oct 2021
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Lot 440

Estimate: 750 GBP
Price realized: 750 GBP
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Parthia(?), 'Athenian Series' AR Didrachm. Hekatompylos(?), circa 246/5-239/8 BC. Attic standard. Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl; monogram of Andragoras(?) behind / Owl standing to right, head facing; prow behind, AΘE before. Roma XIV, -, but cf. 329 (tetradrachm); Bopearachchi, Sophytes -; SNG ANS -; N&A -, cf. 36-39 (tetradrachms); Roma XVI, 403. 8.24g, 19mm, 6h.

Near Extremely Fine; attractive cabinet tone. Extremely Rare.

From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.
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