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Uncertain (BC 500-450) bull - Hemidrachm168 views5th century BC. AR 1/6 Stater - Hemidrachm(?) (11mm, 1.91g). Bull(?) standing right, head reverted / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, toned, a little granular. Very rare.
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Uncertain (BC 500-450) bull - Hemiobol200 viewsca 5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.42g). Bull standing left, head right / Quadripartite incuse square. gF. Very rare, apparently unpublished.
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Uncertain (BC 500-450) bull - Obol180 views5th century BC. AR Obol(?) (8mm, 0.63g). Bull(?) standing right, head reverted / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, toned, some porosity. Well centered. Very rare.
The animal on the obverse here appears to be the same creature featured on the obverse of other obscure early issues; see CNG 105, lot 393 (same denomination); CNG E-369, lot 140 and CNG E-321, lot 167 (obols); and CNG E-361, lot 748 (hemiobol). All of these coins have a similar style, and perhaps are from a single mint.
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Uncertain (BC 500-450) cow - Hemistater?122 views5th century BC. AR Hemistater (16mm, 5.60g, 1h). Cow standing left, head right; below, calf kneeling right, suckling / Incuse of male head with African features left. VF, toned, porous. Extremely rare, the third known.
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Uncertain (BC 500-450) cow - Hemistater?385 views5th century BC. AR (6.05g). Cow standing left, head reverted, calf suckling right / Incuse head of African man left. Gemini sale 4, 2008, 195 (these dies). Of the highest rarity, apparently only the second known. Lightly toned, EF.
A mint in Caria or Lycia in the 5th century BC has been suggested, and its weight of 6.05 grams suggests it was intended as a half-stater of the Aeginetan or Samian standard. The most likely influence might have been the electrum sixths of Phocaea attributed by Bodenstedt (Ph24 and Ph54) to before 522 BC and to the period 477-388 BC. This might be especially relevant since the Phocaean sister-coinage of Mytilene of ca 521-455 BC uses for its reverses the heads of animals and the head of Heracles, all of which are rendered incuse.
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Uncertain (BC 500-450) Diobol?387 views5th century BC. AR Diobol(?) (9.5mm, 1.07g). Archaic bearded male head left / Quadripartite square. Unpublished in the standard references. Near EF, toned.
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Uncertain (BC 500-450) Hemiobol243 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Hemiobol (8mm, 0.39g). Four-rayed star (or perhaps a bird’s claw?) / Incuse punch. Unpublished in the standard references. VF, lightly toned, granular surfaces.
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Uncertain (BC 500-450) Obol?164 viewsca 6th-5th century BC. AR Obol (?) (6mm, 0.43g). Archaic bare male head right / Incuse punch. aVF. Very rare.
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Uncertain (BC 500-450) Obol?195 views5th century BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.84 g). Bearded male head left, wearing torc / Quadripartite incuse square. Apparently unpublished. Good VF, toned, some porosity. Rare.
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Uncertain (BC 510) Drachm2394 viewsca 510 BC. AR Drachm (3.95g). Head of Gorgon facing / Incuse square divided into four compartments, three containing a pellet and one a crescent. Extremely rare. Nicely toned. Very fine.
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Uncertain (BC 510) Obol204 views5th century BC. AR Obol (9mm, 0.98g). Head of Gorgoneion facing / Irregular punch. Milesian standard. Near EF, toned. Good metal. Very rare. Ex Bérend Coll.
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Uncertain (BC 510-470) Drachm154 views5th century BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 3.91g). Facing lion’s head or scalp / Quadripartite incuse square with raised central square and pellet. VF, patch of find patina on obverse. Good metal. Extremely rare, perhaps the second known.
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Uncertain (BC 510-470) Drachm143 viewsca 5th century BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 3.86g). Facing lion’s head or scalp / Quadripartite incuse square with raised central square and pellet. Unpublished in the standard references. VF, toned.
The style and fabric of this piece are clearly related to the early drachms of Parion in Mysia.
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Uncertain (BC 530-480) Diobol?187 viewsLate 6th-early 5th centuries BC. AR Diobol(?) (9mm, 1.10g). Rosette / Incuse square with windmill pattern. Unpublished in the standard references. Good VF, lightly toned, slightly granular, off center on obverse.
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Uncertain (BC 530-480) Diobol?168 views5th century BC. AR Diobol(?) (10mm, 1.41g). Winged figure advancing right, head facing, raising both arms; volutes above and below / Rough incuse punch. Unpublished. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare, possibly unique.
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Uncertain (BC 530-480) Drachm144 viewsca 600-560 BC. AR Drachm (3.85g, 15mm). Wolf, standing left on base composed of a horizontal row of pearls between two linear borders, eating bunch of grapes from right paw / Quadripartite incuse square.
gVF. Unpublished and apparently only the second known example. Ex Molard Coll., Switzerland.
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Uncertain (BC 530-480) Trihemiobol1165 viewsca 530-500 BC. AR Trihemiobol (1.18g). Tunny fish right / Irregular incuse. Ex Rosen Coll.
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Uncertain (BC 550-520) 1/6299 viewsca 550-520 BC. AR Sixth Stater (9mm, 1.51g). Head of griffin right / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, toned. Lee Coll.
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Uncertain (BC 550-520) 1/6467 viewsca 550-520 BC. AR Sixth Stater (9mm, 1.53g). Stylized head of griffin right / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, toned. Lee Coll.
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Uncertain (BC 550-520) Hemiobol283 views5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (0.3g, 6mm). Radiate head of lion facing / Incuse punch. EF.
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Uncertain (BC 550-520) Obol681 viewsca 6th century BC. AR Obol (7mm, 0.71g). Grain ear? / Quadripartite incuse. VF. Very rare and unpublished in the standard works.
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Uncertain (BC 550-520) Obol263 viewsca 5th century BC. AR Obol (7mm, 0.62g). Stylized facing lion’s head wearing four-spiked crown / Incuse square punch with intersecting lines and pellet. VF, toned. Koppersmith coll.; ex Elsen 109 (6/2011), lot 143.
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Uncertain (BC 550-520) Tetrobol425 viewsca 5th century BC. AR Tetrobol (11mm, 2.86g). Stylized facing lion’s head wearing five-spiked crown / Incuse square punch with intersecting lines and pellet. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare, only the second known tetrobol for the series.
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Uncertain (BC 600-550) EL Hekte2228 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hekte (2.73g), probably on the Phokaian weight standard. Scorpion / Irregular incuse square. Apparently unpublished and unknown. Some minor marks, otherwise EF. Ex Gorny & Mosch 190 (10/2010), 245.
This is an extraordinary piece, quite clearly on the Phokaian standard (as is the piece in the Leu sale - there are lighter electrum pieces with scorpions, as Weidauer 170, but they seem to be on the Milesian standard). The possibility that this piece may have been produced in Thrace or Macedon, given the well known bee that is found on uncertain silver coins from that area (CNG Auction 88, 75) is not unlikely, especially given the rather rough incuse square. There is also a very similar scorpion on some slightly later silver coins that are now also attributed to northern Greece since some have been found there (as SNG Copenhagen 377 and SNG con Aulock 6664 - both published as being from Asia Minor).
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