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Auction: 23007 - Ancient Coins Including the 'Kyrios' Collection of Greek Coins and featuring the 'Ostorius' Collection of Roman Gold
Lot: 25

The 'Kyrios' Collection | Lydia, temp. Cyrus - Darius I (550/39-520 BC), AR ½-Stater or Siglos, Sardis, forepart of lion right confronting forepart of bull left, rev. two square incuse punches, 5.34g (Traité I, 409ff; SNG Kayhan 1024ff; Berk 22; SNG Copenhagen 456; SNG von Aulock 2877ff; SNG Ashmolean 762ff), minor striking fissures, otherwise a most wholesome example, handsomely well-centred and struck-up, a most pleasingly good very fine

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£1,200

Starting price
£800