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Auction XXV  22-23 Sep 2022
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Lot 492

Estimate: 1500 GBP
Price realized: 1800 GBP
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Persia, Alexandrine Empire AR Tetradrachm. Uncertain satraps of Babylon, time of Stamenes - Seleukos, circa 328-311 BC. Baaltars seated to left, torso facing, holding short sceptre in right hand and with left placed on throne / Lion advancing to left; eight-pointed star above. Nicolet-Pierre 16 var. (star of a different style); BMC 39-41 var. (same); SNG Copenhagen 265 var. (same); Roma 76, lot 494. 17.01g, 24mm, 7h.

Near Extremely Fine; beautifully struck on a thick, weighty flan, and exhibiting a smoky old cabinet tone. Extremely rare with this rev. symbol; seemingly just the second specimen to come to auction in the past two decades.

Ex Baldwin's Auctions Ltd, Auction 50, 24 April 2007, lot 62.
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