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Auction 32 8 January 2014
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ANCIENT COINS. GREEK COINS. Mysia, Lampsakos (c.350 B.C.), Gold Stater, 8.39g, 4h. Head of the hunter Aktaion facing to left, wearing a stag's horn above his forehead. Rev. Forepart of Pegasos facing to right (Baldwin, 'The Gold Staters of Lampsakos', AJN 53, 1924, 33b-c, pl. III, 15-16 (this obverse die); Gulbenkian 694; Jameson 1434; SNG France 1145).A few minor marks, about extremely fine.Extremely rare and of beautiful style.
Ex Moreira Collection, Part 1, Superior Galleries, Beverly Hills, 31 May – 1 June 1988, lot 1518
Ex Bank Leu AG 50, Zürich, 25 April 1990, lot 155
Ex Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, lot 470
This coin has been struck from dies of wonderful late classical style, the head of Aktaion and the forepart of the Pegasos filling the flan with spectacular impact.Aktaion was a mythological hunter, trained by the centaur Chiron.The story of how he met his death is illustrated upon this coin.Aktaion had, on Mount Cithaeron, inadvertently stumbled upon Artemis bathing, who was so angered that he had seen her naked, that she transformed him into a stag and had his own hunting dogs tear him to pieces.The obverse of this fourth century coin captures that moment of transformation with stunning classical effect, with a stag's horn beginning to emerge from Aktaion's head.
Estimate: US$ 25,000
Ex Moreira Collection, Part 1, Superior Galleries, Beverly Hills, 31 May – 1 June 1988, lot 1518
Ex Bank Leu AG 50, Zürich, 25 April 1990, lot 155
Ex Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, lot 470
This coin has been struck from dies of wonderful late classical style, the head of Aktaion and the forepart of the Pegasos filling the flan with spectacular impact.Aktaion was a mythological hunter, trained by the centaur Chiron.The story of how he met his death is illustrated upon this coin.Aktaion had, on Mount Cithaeron, inadvertently stumbled upon Artemis bathing, who was so angered that he had seen her naked, that she transformed him into a stag and had his own hunting dogs tear him to pieces.The obverse of this fourth century coin captures that moment of transformation with stunning classical effect, with a stag's horn beginning to emerge from Aktaion's head.
Estimate: US$ 25,000