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Auction 26  21 May 2023
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Lot 452

Estimate: 400 CHF
Price realized: 1300 CHF
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CARIA. Knidos. Circa 500-490 BC. Trihemiobol (Silver, 11.5 mm, 1.72 g, 12 h). Head of roaring lion to right. Rev. Archaistic head of Aphrodite to right, with her hair bound with fillet and falling down behind; all within incuse square. BMFA 1979 = Cahn 4.3 (V1/R4) = Rosen 342 = Warren 1167 = Greenwell 1979 (this coin). HN Online 299. Rare. Well-centered and toned. Obverse lightly struck from a slightly worn die, otherwise, about extremely fine.
From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions, ex Münzen und Medailen FPL 549, November/December 1991, 96, from the collection of J. P. Rosen and that of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Numismatic Fine Arts VIII, 1980, 274, and the collections of E.P. Warren and W. Greenwell.
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