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Buy or Bid Sale 217  30 Nov 2021
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Lot 69

Estimate: 11 000 USD
Price realized: 11 000 USD
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Sicily, Agathokles, 317 - 289 BC. Tetradrachm; Sicily, Agathokles, 317 - 289 BC; 317-289 BC. c. 305-295 BC, Tetradrachm, 16.90g. Ierardi-104 (dies 21/65, 10 spec.). Obv: Head of Kore-Persephone r., wearing single drop earring and necklace of beads, hair wreathed with barley, ????S behind head. Rx: Nike standing r., draped from waist, wings spread on either side; in r. hand a hammer, in l. hand, nail, with which she is about to fix helmet to trophy; to r., triskeles, monogram AV below wing, [?G?T??????S] behind. Ex Berk 142, 17 March 2005, lot 53.The die cutter of these two coins, lots 69 and 70, is very conservative and businesslike, especially on the obverse. One would think these coins were created at very different dates. MS
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