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Auction 123  23-24 May 2023
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Lot 101

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 7500 USD
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CRETE, Gortyna. Circa 330-270 BC. AR Stater (27mm, 11.58 g, 12h). Europa seated right within tree branches, propping up her head with her left hand, right hand set on branches to left / Bull standing right, head reverted. Svoronos, Numismatique 57 (same obv. die as illustration); Le Rider, Crétoises, p. 57, 13d, pl. XII, 3 = SNG Lockett 2558 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen 440; Boutin 127; Evans –; Traeger 67. Old cabinet tone, irregular flan, overstruck on a stater of Lyttos (cf. Le Rider, Crétoises, pl. XXV, 13 for type). VF.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Stack's, Bowers, and Ponterio 174, 12 January 2013), lot 5536; Gemini V (6 January 2009), lot 582 (unsold from the Ebert collection); Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Greek Part III, 27 May 1959), lot 2031, purchased privately from Baldwins for £12.
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