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Auction 26 21 May 2023
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LESBOS. Uncertain mint. Circa 500-450 BC. 1/24th Stater (Billon, 7 mm, 0.39 g). Head of a boar to right; before, pellet; above, frontal eye. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. SNG Arıkantürk 631. Rare. Bold and with dark surfaces as found. Some encrustations and traces of corrosion, otherwise, about extremely fine.
From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions and from the collection of L. Mildenberg.
The head on this coin is almost certainly a boar, but it does, oddly enough, have a strange resemblance to the head of a protoceratops (!!), which has plausibly been identified as being the origin of the mythical griffin!
From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions and from the collection of L. Mildenberg.
The head on this coin is almost certainly a boar, but it does, oddly enough, have a strange resemblance to the head of a protoceratops (!!), which has plausibly been identified as being the origin of the mythical griffin!