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E-Sale 103  24 Nov 2022
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Lot 1520

Estimate: 50 GBP
Price realized: 190 GBP
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Electrotype: Islands off Ionia, Samos AR Tridrachm. Unknown maker, circa 19th century. Copying the Symmachy coinage of circa 405/4 BC. The infant Herakles, nude but for baldric over left shoulder, kneeling to right, strangling serpent with each hand; Σ-Υ-Ν around / Facing scalp of lion, ΣΑ below; all within shallow circular incuse. For prototype, cf.: Barron 1b; BMC 129; Jameson 1528; Kraay & Hirmer 616. 18.56g, 23mm, 6h.

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Ex St Olave's Grammar School Collection (Kent).
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