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Nomos 17

26 October 2018
Zunfthaus zur Saffran, Zürich
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With an impressive pedigree to the end of the 19th Century

Estimate: 12000 CHF
Hammer Price:  18000 CHF
Lot 75

THRACE. Ainos. Circa 457/6-456/5 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 16.34 g, 5 h). Head of Hermes to right, his hair wound around his head in a plait, wearing a petasos with a beaded border and a button at the top. Rev. AINI Male goat standing to right; to right, ivy leaf within a crescent; all within a shallow incuse square. AMNG 272. May 48d (A29/P39) this coin. Rare. Toned and with a powerful head of Hermes in a vigorous, almost rustic, early Classical northern Greek style. Nearly extremely fine.

From the Vineyard Collection and from the Star Collection, LHS 102, 29 April 2008, 107, and from the collections of D. Féret, Vinchon, 24 November 1994, 230, the Comtesse M. de Béhague, Vinchon 14 April 1984, 80, that of T. Prowe, Egger XLVI, 11 May 1914, 171 and that of Montagu, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 15 March 1897, 152.

Online bidding closes: 26 Oct 2018, 10:00:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 28 Mar 2024, 22:38:21 CET Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:18000 CHF

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