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Auction: 23106 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 28: Ancient Coins Featuring the Dr. Offer Collection of Jewish Coins - e-Auction
Lot: 7826

A Selection of Greek Silver (7): Calabria, Taras, (2): i) AR Nomos, Naked youth on horseback right, preparing to dismount, right hand behind, H and E below horse rev. Dolphin rider left, holding out cantharus in right arm, TARAS below, 7.76g, (Cf. Vlasto, 486) details flattened, good fine; ii) AR Diobol, c. 325-389 BC, Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet rev. Heracles kneeling right, wrestling the Nemean lion, in left field, club, 1.05g, (Cf. HN Italy, 976) lustrous, good fine; iii) Boeotia, Thebes, AR Obol, Boeotian shield, rev. Amphora, club right above, THE-BI across fields, 2.27g, (BCD Boeotia, 412; SNG Copenhagen, 290) softened but nevertheless good fine to very fine; iii) Euboea, Chalkis, AR Drachm, Head of the nymph Chalkis right rev. XAL Eagle flying right, grappling with serpent, caduceus below, 3.50g, (SNG Copenhagen, 438); iv) Sikyonia, Sikyon, AR Hemidrachm, c.330-280 BC Chimaera advancing left, raising forepaw; SI below rev. Dove flying left; no control marks, 2.52g, (BCD Peloponnesos 283; HGC 5, 213) grainy with some porosity but still fine; vi) Ionia, Chios, in the names and types of Alexander III, 'The Great' (336-323 BC) AR Drachm, c.290-270 BC Head of Heracles clad in lion skin right, rev. [AL]EXAND[ROY] Zeus Aetophoros enthroned left with sceptre in right hand, legs crossed, monogram above grape bunch to left field, 4.09g (Price, 2319) residually lustrous, good fine; Arkadian League, Megalopolis, AR Hemidrachm, c.175-168 BC, Laureate head of Zeus left rev. MEG Pan seated left on rock, raising left arm and holding lagobolon in right hand eagle above knee, 2.38g, (BCD Peloponnesos, 1552ff; HGC 5, 932) spotted, but toned and lustrous, well-struck, good very fine (7).

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