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Auction 11  14 May 2022
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Lot 138

Estimate: 3500 CHF
Price realized: 4200 CHF
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CARIA. Uncertain. Circa 460-440 BC. Stater (Silver, 22 mm, 11.83 g, 6 h), Aeginetic standard. Nude male figure, with wings on his shoulders and his heels, in kneeling-running position to left, raising his right arm and lowering his left; to upper left, monogram. Rev. I-𐊡-𐊰𐋀 Lion walking left, head turned back to right; above, monogram; all within square incuse. HN online 1576.2 (this coin). Troxell, Winged Carians, p. 263, 41. Very rare. A beautiful coin of lovely late Archaic style. The obverse weakly struck, otherwise, good very fine.


From the collection of Sheik Saud al Thani, Numismatica Ars Classica 124, 23 June 2021, 213, from the Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, 542, ex Spink Numismatic Circular XCVI.10, December 1988, 7669, Sternberg XIV, 24-25 May 1984 and Hess 1, 14 April 1954, 170, and from a Carian find in 1932 (IGCH 1180).
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