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Auction 32 8 January 2014
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ANCIENT COINS. GREEK COINS. Peloponnese, Arkadia, Stymphalos (c.350 B.C.), Silver Stater, 11.52g, 2h. Head of Artemis facing to right, wearing a laurel-wreath, a pendant earring and a pearl necklace, her hair tied in a knot on top of her head. Rev. ΣTYMΦAΛIΩN, Herakles, naked, with a lion's skin wrapped around his left arm, striding to left, raising his club in his right hand above his head in preparation to strike, ΣO between his legs (BMC 6, pl. XXXVII, 4 (these dies); McClean 7008 (this reverse die); BCD Peloponnesos, lot 1704 (this reverse die); Gulbenkian 560; Boston 1269; Jameson 1267; Babelon, Traité III, 884, pl. CCXXIV, 22).Some marks below old tone, of superb late classical style, obverse good very fine, reverse very fine.Extremely rare.
Ex Monnaies et Médailles SA, Auction XIX, Basel, 5-6 June 1959, lot 442 (described as previously in the Gotha cabinet)
Purchased from Spink & Son, London, 25 January 1985
Ex Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, lot 400
The city-state of Stymphalos, having previously been under Spartan domination, only began minting its own coinage in the mid-fourth century B.C.This issue of Staters displays superb late classical style and it seems likely that one or a group of engravers, who were also responsible for producing masterpieces for contemporary coinages at nearby Peloponnesian city-states, were working at Stymphalos.This issue is one of the rarest, and most attractive, of all fourth century Greek coins.
Estimate: US$ 25,000
Ex Monnaies et Médailles SA, Auction XIX, Basel, 5-6 June 1959, lot 442 (described as previously in the Gotha cabinet)
Purchased from Spink & Son, London, 25 January 1985
Ex Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, lot 400
The city-state of Stymphalos, having previously been under Spartan domination, only began minting its own coinage in the mid-fourth century B.C.This issue of Staters displays superb late classical style and it seems likely that one or a group of engravers, who were also responsible for producing masterpieces for contemporary coinages at nearby Peloponnesian city-states, were working at Stymphalos.This issue is one of the rarest, and most attractive, of all fourth century Greek coins.
Estimate: US$ 25,000