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Auction 23  30 Nov 2021
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Lot 23

Estimate: 5000 CHF
Price realized: 4800 CHF
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SICILY. Katane. Circa 461-450 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 16.98 g, 10 h), dies engraved by the "Aetna Master". The river god Amenanos, portrayed as a bearded man-headed bull swimming to right; above, branch; below, fish swimming to right (probably a grey mullet). Rev. ΚΑΤΑΝΕ Nike running to left, holding ribbons in her right hand. BMC 2 (this reverse die). Gulbenkian 175 (same dies). Jameson 1891 (this coin). Kraay & Hirmer 29 (same dies). Niggeler 104 (this coin). Rizzo pl. 9, 3 (same dies). Nearly extremely fine.

From the Collection I, USA, and from the collections of Walter Niggeler 1, Bank Leu & Münzen und Medaillen, 3 December 1965, 104, and R. Jameson, ex Hirsch XXX, 11 May 1911, 334.
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