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Auction 103  6 Oct 2021
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Estimate: 2500 GBP
Price realized: 6500 GBP
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Thrace, Abdera (c. 411/10‐386/5 BC) AR Stater, 12.31g. ABΔH, griffin seated to left, its wings slightly spread, a cicada in left field. Rev. EΠIΦIΛA / ΔOΣ, Herakles seated facing three‐quarters to left on a
rock draped with a lion's skin, his torso and head turned facing, holding a club in his right hand that
rests on his right knee, and resting his left elbow on his thigh, all within a shallow incuse square. (May
396 (A277/P322); AMNG II, 105, pl. II, 40; SNG Lockett 1132, this obverse die; Gulbenkian 447, this
reverse die). Beautiful style. Nearly Extremely Fine.
Ex. CNG Auction 39, lot #391;
Ex. Baldwin's Auction 37 (04/05/2003) lot #593.
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