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Auction 24  22 May 2022
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Lot 185

Estimate: 7500 CHF
Price realized: 8000 CHF
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ISLANDS OFF TROAS, Tenedos. Circa 100-70 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 36 mm, 16.58 g, 12 h). Janiform head composed of a laureate and bearded head of Zeus to left and a diademed head of Hera to right. Rev. ΤΕΝΕΔΙΩΝ Double axe; to left, monogram of ΤΕ reversed and a bunch of grapes; to right, Artemis standing to left, holding a leaping stag by the horns; all within laurel wreath. Callataÿ, Tenedos 5 (this coin). A very rare early issue, nicely toned and with a fine pedigree. Flan flaw on the reverse, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.
From a collector in the Antipodes, ex Nomos 5, 25 October 2011, 181, Hess-Leu 31, 6 December 1966, 417 and from the collection of T. Prowe, Egger XLVI, 11 May 1914, 699.
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