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Auction: 23007 - Ancient Coins Including the 'Kyrios' Collection of Greek Coins and featuring the 'Ostorius' Collection of Roman Gold
Lot: 98

The 'Kyrios' Collection | Ionia, Ephesos, AR Tetradrachm, Magistrate Demokrates, c. 350 BC, bee from above, wings overlapping dotted border, E-PH across fields, rev. forepart of stag running right, head turned left, date palm to left, name of magistrate to right, 14.92g (Prospero 504; Rhousopolos 3669), about extremely fine, unusually well-preserved bee, reverse toned, lovely

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Baldwin's by private treaty, Winter 2018, with ticket - £5,750

Gasvoda Collection, Classical Numismatic Group 109, 12 September 2018, lot 150, 'near extremely fine' - $4,500

Freeman and Sear, Manhattan Sale IV, 8 January 2013, lot 52, 'nearly extremely fine' - $4,500;
Goldberg 70, 4 September 2012, lot 3121, 'excellent metal [...] extremely fine' - $4,000

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Sold for
£4,200

Starting price
£3500