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Altro esempio di acrostolio decorato con una testa elmata.

ROMAN COINS: ROMAN REPUBLIC 
Denario. 109-108 a.C. LUTATIA-2. Q. Lutatius Cerci, . Rev.: Galera a derecha, en la proa cabeza con casco, en la popa acrostolium, todo rodado por corona de laurel, encima Q. LVTATI Q. 3,52 grs. AR. Cal-914; FFC-828. BC+/MBC.

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CARTHAGE. Circa 350-320 BC. AV Hemistater (11.5mm, 4.48 g, 11h). Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with eight pendants / Horse standing right; palm tree in background, three pellets before leading foreleg. Jenkins & Lewis Group IIIf, 55 (same rev. die); MAA 5; CNP 169b; SNG Copenhagen –; de Luynes 3741 (same rev. die). Good VF, toned. Very rare.
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXV (20 November 1990), lot 41.
By the third century BC, the Punic goddess Tanit and the horse had become the standard types of Carthaginian coinage and remained so for the balance of the city’s existence. Tanit was the primary deity of Carthage. A celestial divinity with some fertility aspects, she was the North African equivalent of Astarte. She is always depicted on the coinage wearing a wreath of grain which may have been borrowed from Demeter and Persephone as the Carthaginians assimilated the Sicilian culture into their own during the various Punic excursions to the island. The use of the horse on the reverse is usually considered part of the foundation myth of Carthage. According to Virgil's Aeneid , the Phoenician colonists who founded Carthage were told by Juno (or Tanit) to establish the new colony at the place where they discovered a horse's head in the ground. An alternate theory is that the obverse head is actually Demeter or Persephone, whose worship was introduced to Carthage in 396 BC to make amends for the destruction of the goddesses' temples outside Syracuse by the Carthaginian army.

Carthage began issuing a gold coinage in the 4th century BC, apparently to finance the expansion of their trading empire into Sicily. The quality of the gold dropped over time, and by the late 4th century, the series was entirely of electrum. As most of the Carthaginian silver was struck at local mints in their occupied cities in Sicily, very little silver was issued at Carthage. However, a robust bronze coinage of multiple denominations was issued alongside the gold and electrum coinage, reflecting the flourishing local economy. The conflicts with the Greeks in Sicily continued into the 3rd century BC, at which time Carthage also became embroiled in conflict with the new power in the region, Rome. This conflict led to three major wars which continued to put great pressure on the Carthaginian economy, and the degradation in the metal quality during the earlier wars continued into this period, with the golden-yellow of the electrum eventually turing into a near white-yellow. Silver denominations were also issued more often during this latter period, but also were degraded into a billon coinage. Ultimately, these issues came to an end with the destruction of Carthage at the hands of the Romans at the conclusion of the Third Punic War in 146 BC.

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Titus. 79-81 AD. Denarius, 3.48g. (h). Rome, 80 AD. Obv: IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M Head laureate right. Rx: TR P IX IMP XV - COS VIII P P Trophy of arms between two seated captives; the captive on left is a bearded male, chest bare, wearing trousers, with hands tied behind back; the one on right is a veiled woman supporting head with left hand and resting left elbow on left knee. RIC 104 (R ). BM 40. Hendin 1584b. Paris 34 and Cohen 306 (3 francs) only have the common variant in which the male and female captives have swapped places. Rare positioning of the captives. VF.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection .

 

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LESBOS, Unattributed early mint. Circa 450 BC. BI 1/12 Stater (0.90 g). Head of Nubian right / Shallow incuse square. SNG München -; SNG von Aulock 7715 var. (incuse); SNG Copenhagen 296 var. (same); BMC 42-4. Good VF, toned, minor porosity. Rare.

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PARTHIAN KINGDOM. Phraates III (ca. 70-57 BC). AR drachm (20mm, 3.91 gm, 11h). Court mint, Rhagai. Diademed and draped bust of Phraates III facing, wearing necklace with medallion / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY APΣ-AKOY ΘEOΠATOPOΣ EVEPΓETOV EΠIΦANOVΣ ΦIΛEΛΛHNOΣ in seven lines around, archer seated right, holding bow; below bow, monogram. Sunrise 333 (same obverse die). Sellwood 35.13 (Darius?). Shore -. With a superb bust of great artistry, perfectly centered on a broad flan, and struck in good metal. Good Extremely Fine. As is the case with many Parthian rulers, little is known of the reign of Phraates III, save for his occasional contacts and exchanges of correspondence with the Roman general Pompey the Great. He did, however, produce one of the most intriguing Parthian coins, this intriguing issue which shows the king in a fully frontal pose, a sharp departure of the usual practice of Parthian and Greco-Roman coinage. It may have been struck as a victory issue after the final defeat of his rival, Arsaces XVI, in 66 BC. The portrait is quite masterly rendered by this die engraver, working at the royal court mint of Rhagai.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: GUERRIERI PARTI CON LE INSEGNE SOTTRATTE ALL'ESERCITO ROMANO SCONFITTO A CARRE NEL 53 A.C.

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Carthaginian Spain, Barcid Dominion AR Dishekel. South-western region of Gadir, circa 237-228 BC. Diademed male head (Hamilcar?) to left, with hanging ties / Prow of galley to right, with rostra, oars, two shields on deck and a wreathed forepost, to which is attached a pennant; seahorse in exergue. MHC, Class II, 14 (same dies); ACIP 542; AB 481. 14.72g, 27mm, 11h.
Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare, and among the finest known examples. 
In 237 BC Hamilcar Barca, after having lost the First Punic War against Rome, but having won the Mercenary War against the Libyans, disembarked at Gadir with a Carthaginian expedition with the purpose of “re-establishing Carthaginian authority in Iberia” (Polybios, Histories, 2.1.6), and within 9 years he had expanded the territory of Carthage well into the Iberian peninsula, securing control of the southern mining district of Baetica and Sierra Morena, before dying in battle in 228. Hamilcar was succeeded by his son-in-law Hasdrubal the Fair who expanded the new province by skilful diplomacy and consolidated it with the foundation of Akra Leuka, Mahon and finally in 227, Qart Hadasht (Latin: Carthago Nova) as his capital. After his untimely death in 221 he was succeeded by Hannibal (247-182), oldest son of Hamilcar Barca, and Hamilcar’s second son Hasdrubal (245-207 BC). The Barcids now wielded control over much of the mineral rich Mediterranean side of the peninsula until 219 when Hannibal made the fateful move of taking and sacking Saguntum, a well established Roman ally. The wholesale slaughter of this Roman ally’s population, and the arrogance with which the Roman ambassadors sent to Carthage to seek redress were met, led directly to the Second Punic War: the great statesman Quintus Fabius, speaking to the Carthaginian senate, gathered a fold of his toga to his chest and held it out, saying “Here, we bring you peace and war. Take which you will.” The Carthaginians replied “Whichever you please - we do not care.” Fabius let the fold drop and proclaimed “We give you war.” 
The obverse of this coinage is popularly believed to depict Hamilcar Barca (or depict his features assimilated into Herakles-Melqart), who had after 247 commanded Carthage’s fleet and army in the Sicilian theatre of the First Punic War. The reverse of this type clearly alludes to the Carthaginian tradition of being a primarily naval power, and probably more specifically, to a renewed strengthening of the fleet, which had been so devasatated in the war - according to Polybius’ estimates, Carthage had lost 500 ships and he commented that the war was, at the time, the most destructive in terms of casualties in the history of warfare, including the battles of Alexander the Great. Yet despite rebuilding their ships, Carthage’s naval supremacy and the confidence to use them aggressively had been broken. Although Hamilcar himself had been an able admiral, after his death Carthaginian commanders (including his sons) appear not to have been sufficiently confident to aggressively challenge the Romans at sea in the Second Punic War, which in contrast to the preceding war, was largely a land-based conflict.

 

illustrazione: ANNIBALE

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Titus. 79-81 AD. Sestertius, 24.86g. (h). Uncertain Thracian Mint, 80 AD. Obv: IMP T CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII (counterclockwise) Head laureate right. Rx: IVDAEA - CAPTA around, S C in exergue, Palm tree, at base of which, on right, veiled Judaea seated right on cuirass, supporting head with hand in mourning, a shield before her legs, and on left, bearded Jew standing right, hands tied behind back, two shields and a spear on ground behind him. RIC 133 (R2), pl. 92 (Oxford specimen, same dies). Hendin 1589. Not in BMC, Paris, or Cohen. From the same obverse die as the next lot and as RIC 134-135, pl. 92, this being the only known COS VIII obverse die of Titus in this rare issue, which may have been the earliest issue struck by Titus and Domitian's uncertain Thracian mint. Green patina, About VF.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from David Hendin, December 2010. Ex Gorny & Mosch 180, 12 October 2009, lot 380 .

ILLUSTRAZIONE: IL FUTURO IMPERATORE TITO COMBATTE CONTRO I GIUDEI DURANTE L'ASSEDIO DI IOTAPATA (67 A.C.)

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BABYLONIEN
BABYLON. Mazaios, 331 - 328 v.Chr. Obol (0,55g). Vs.: Makedonischer Reiter n. r. Rs.: Baal n. r. thro­nend. Mitchiner, ACW 182. R! ss

ILLUSTRAZIONE: GLI UOMINI DI ALESSANDRO ACCAMPATI A BABILONIA 

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Pisidia, Sagalassos, c. 1st century AD. Æ (16mm, 3.84g, 6h). Draped bust of Men r. set on a crescent, wearing Phrygian. R/ Helmeted bust of Athena r. SNG BnF 1732. Green patina, VF

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Valentinian III AV Solidus, Ravenna. Circa AD 435. D N PLA VALENTINIANVS P F AVG, consular bust left, wearing pearl-diadem, holding mappa in right hand and cruciform sceptre in left / VOT X MVLT XX, Valentinian enthroned facing, wearing crown and richly jewelled imperial consular robe, holding mappa in right hand and cruciform sceptre in left, R V across fields, COMOB in ex. RIC 2036; Depeyrot 14/1; Ranieri 99. 4.45g, 21mm, 6h.
Very Rare. Extremely Fine.
This coin was struck to celebrate the joint consulate of Valentinian III with eastern emperor Theodosius II, at the same time as the decennial vows in AD 435. At no time during Valentinian’s long and turbulent reign were the affairs of state personally managed by him, who in his minority ruled first under the control of his mother Galla Placidia, and from 437, the magister militum Flavius Aetius.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: TRUPPE ROMANE DIFENDONO UNA CITTA' DURANTE UN ASSEDIO UNNO.

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GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN 
JUDÄA 
IUDÄA
Pontius Pilatus (Gouverneur von Iudäa 26 - 36). Prutah. TIBEPIOY KAICAROC. Lituus. Rs: Jahresangabe LIZ (Jahr 17 = 30) in Lorbeerkranz. Hendin 649. 1,61g. Sehr schön.
Die Münzprägung des Pilatus mit dem Krummstab der Auguren führte zum Konflikt mit den Juden, deren religiösen Gefühle verletzt wurden; vgl. Dazu K. Jaros, In Sachen Pontius Pilatus (Mainz 2002), 68-71.

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Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 100	Auction date: 29 May 2017
Lot number: 1167 Price realized: 325 CHF   (Approx. 334 USD / 298 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: An Interesting Selection of Roman Provincial Coinage  Attica, Athens. Pseudo-autonomous issues. Bronze circa 120-140, Æ 9.27 g. Bust of Athena r., wearing Corinthian helmet. Rev. AΘH Themistocles standing l. on galley, holding trophy and wreath; on prow, owl and on ram, serpent. Svoronos pl. 97, 5. BMC 785, pl. XIX, 1. SNG Copenhagen 318. Kroll 181. Rare. Brown patina, minor areas of corrosion, otherwise about very fine

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Mantineia Chalkous, warrior / altar, very rare, ex BCD
Mantineia , Peloponnesos. AE Chalkous (1.99 g, 14 mm), c. 370-360s BC.
Obv. Bearded warrior right.
Rev. M - A - N, Round altar with Corinthian helmet right on top (with the second letter of the inscription on the altar face). 
BMC 18 = Traité III 971, pl. CCXXVII, 8; MG 240.
Very rare. Dark green patina. About very fine.
From the BCD collection and ex LHS 96 (2006), 1478.

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GAUL, Central. Aedui. Dubnocoveros and Dubnorex. Circa 100-50 BC. AR Quinarius (14mm, 1.69 g, 9h). Female head right; [DV]BNOCOV before / Warrior standing left, holding boar standard; DVBNORE[X] to right. D&T 3211; Depeyrot, NC IV, 213; CCCBM II 483-6. VF, toned, light porosity. Rare. Depeyrot records only 51 examples, most of which are in museums. Dubnocoveros means ‘giant of the world’ and Dubnorex means ‘king of the world’. The latter is probably the same person as Dumnorix, described by Caesar as the brother of Diviciacus “...who at that time held the chief magistracy of his tribe and enjoyed great popularity” (BG 1.3).

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Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 26mm (10.08 g, 1h). Sidon mint in Phoenicia. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Naumachia: two pentekonters parallel, each with multiple oarsmen left; at prow of first, Athena standing right; at stern of second, Marsyas standing left; figure standing left at stern of second pentekonter, attempting to board first; above, image of Astarte; dolphin right in waves. Babelon, Perses 1777; BMC p. cxii-cxiii; AUB -; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, red and green patina. Very rare.
From the Alexandre de Barros Ship Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear 7 (22 February 2002), lot 278.
ANCIENT MARITIME VESSELS ON COINS
Selections From
The Alexandre de Barros Collection
Classical Numismatic Group is pleased to present the Alexandre de Barros collection of ships on ancient coins. Assembled with a view toward creating a broad overview of Greek and Roman ship types, this collection features some of the earliest examples of ships known on coins. Of particular interest is a Phoenician double shekel struck in Sidon in the late fifth century BC, one of the earliest coins to feature a ship. The collection ends with the issues of Carausius and Allectus, the late third century AD British usurpers.
Estimate: $500

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Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 105	Auction date: 10 May 2017
Lot number: 894 Price realized: 2,300 USD   (Approx. 2,112 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 26.82 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. Laureate and draped bust right / Hadrian, holding volumen, advancing right, followed by officer and three soldiers each carrying a signa; DISCIPLINA AVG in exergue. RIC II 746; Banti 242. VF, brown and green patina, minor smoothing and strengthening of details on reverse. A well-struck example of this scarce type.  From the Collection of a Director. The discussion of this type in RIC (p. 327) notes that this reverse type "celebrates the military reforms of the emperor", without defining what specific event triggered the commemoration on this sestertius. It is most likely related to the conclusion of the last great military campaign of Hadrian's reign, the Bar Kochba revolt in Judaea (AD 132-135). As an internal revolt, not an operation against foreign foes, the war did not warrant a coinage explicitly commemorating its end, but this coin would indirectly mark its conclusion, praising the legions for their steadfastness while stressing the reordering of the armies for peacetime and the standing down from a war footing.  Estimate: 1000 USD

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Moneta di Pnitagora di Salamina che fu alleato di Alessandro nell'assedio di Tiro del 332.

Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 105	Auction date: 10 May 2017
Lot number: 400 Price realized: 18,000 USD   (Approx. 16,528 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: CYPRUS, Salamis. Pnytagoras. Circa 351/0-332/1 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.25 g, 12h). Draped bust of Aphrodite left, hair rolled above forehead and falling in long wavy strands to front and back of shoulder, wearing turreted crown, triple-pendant earring, and beaded necklace; ΠN to right / Draped bust of male left, with long sideburn and hair in tight ringlets falling down back of neck, wearing crown decorated with semicircular plates, and torque; BA to right. Markou, L'or 419 (D4/R6 – this coin); Zapiti & Michaelidou 22; Tziambazis 132; Gulbenkian 813; Jameson 1631; Pozzi 2899. VF, underlying luster, a few minor field marks. Very rare.  Ex Triton X (9 January 2007), lot 386; Vinchon (7 October 2003), lot 55. Pnytagoras came to power following the deposition of his half-uncle Evagoras II, who was expelled by his subjects after refusing to support a revolt against the Persians. Following the revolt, the Persians mounted an invasion to retake Cyprus and supported Evagoras in his bid to regain his throne in Salamis. Soon, however, unknown accusations were made against Evagoras, which prompted the Persians to change their support to Pnytagoras, who subsequently submitted to the Persian king. After the battle of Ipsos, Pnytagoras allied himself with the Macedonians, and his fleet participated in the important siege of Tyre in 332 BC. Following the siege, Alexander rewarded Pnytagoras with the city of Tamassos, which had been a possession of Kition. Pnytagoras died later that same year and was succeeded by his son, Nikokreon. Pnytagoras' gold staters feature the bust of Cypriote Aphrodite, as celebrated by her numerous cult centers on the island. Her turreted crown on the obverse of this coin shows her assimilation to Tyche as the protecting civic goddess for the whole of Cyprus.  Estimate: 15000 USD ILLUSTRAZIONE: ALLESSANDRO IL GRANDE DURANTE L'ASSEDIO DI TIRO.

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Constantine I Æ14.
Constantine I Æ14. Constantinople, AD 330. POP ROMANVS, draped bust of Genius left, cornucopiae on shoulder / Milvian Bridge over the River Tiber, CONSΔ above bridge. RIC 21. 1.03g, 14mm, 12h. Very Fine. Struck in commemoration of the refoundation of Byzantium as Constantinople, the reverse depicts the famed Milvian Bridge over the Tiber, where Constantine defeated Maxentius in October of AD 312.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: BATTAGLIA SU UNO DEI PRIMI PONTI IN LEGNO SUL TEVERE. I ponti di Roma scavalcarono il Tevere quando ormai Roma si era impossessata stabilmente della riva sinistra del fiume; infatti fino a quel momento, per ragioni difensive, non si era ritenuto conveniente costruire ponti che potenzialmente potevano essere utilizzati dal nemico per entrare in città. Anche quando furono costruiti, i primi ponti erano realizzati in legno, proprio per poter essere distrutti in caso di attacco nemico. Solo quando i Romani si sentirono sicuri del loro potere, iniziarono a costruire ponti di pietra.

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Q. Thermus M.f. Silver Denarius (3.91 g), 103 BC. Rome. Head of Mars left, wearing crested helmet ornamented with plume on side. Reverse Q (THE)RM M F in exergue, Roman and barbarian soldiers fighting, each holding forth a shield and raising a sword, the Roman soldier on the left protecting a fallen comrade. Crawford 319/1; Sydenham 592; Minucia 19. Well struck and well centered with attractive light multi-color toning. Superb Extremely Fine. It is likely that the reverse alludes to a specific event of martial prowess of one of the moneyer's ancestors, but if so the precise details have been lost to us. Perhaps it relates to Quintus Minucius Thermus, consul in 193 BC, who, according to Livy, distinguished himself fighting the Ligurians: "Before the consul Lucius Quinctius arrived in his province, Quintus Minucius, in the neighborhood of Pisa, met the Ligures in a pitched battle; he killed nine thousand of the enemy, routed and put to flight the rest and drove them into their camp" (Livy XXXV, 21.7-8). However, he was not awarded a triumph by the Senate for this campaign, although earlier he had received one for fighting the Iberians near Turdo in Spain. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,200 Ex Heritage 3019 (4 April 2012), 23256; M&M Deutschland 9 (4-5 October 2001), 438.

ILLUSTRAZIONE:  CURE PRESTATE AI SOLDATI ROMANI FERITI (UNO DI QUESTI PUO' ESSERE IL SOLDATO CADUTO A TERRA AL ROVESCIO DELLA MONETA E PROTETTO DAL SUO COMMILITONE).

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 399	Auction date: 14 June 2017
Lot number: 117 Price realized: To Be Posted
Lot description: THESSALY, Larissa. Late 4th-early 3rd centuries BC. AR Trihemiobol (10mm, 0.92 g, 6h). Reduced standard. Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, wearing ampyx / [Λ]API-Σ/AIΩN, Thessalian cavalryman on horseback right. BCD Thessaly II 341; HGC 4, 515. VF, toned, porosity. From the BCD Collection. Ex Antikören, Göteborg 8 (18 November 1989), lot 27. Estimate: 75 USD

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 37	Auction date: 24 June 2017
Lot number: 296
Lot description: P. Crepusius AR Denarius. Rome, 82 BC. Laureate bust of Apollo right, control symbols before and behind / Horseman right, brandishing spear; control-numeral behind; P•CREPVSI in exergue. Crawford 361/1c. 4.10g, 18mm, 12h. Near Extremely Fine. From the Thersites Collection. Estimate: 175 GBP

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 398	Auction date: 31 May 2017
Lot number: 296 Price realized: 190 USD   (Approx. 170 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: CILICIA, Tarsos. Circa 440-420 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 9.99 g, 4h). Lion right attacking bull crouching left / Persian king standing right, quiver over shoulder, holding staff; grain ear to right; all within incuse square. Casabonne Group B, Type1; SNG BN –; SNG Levante –; SNG Ashmolean 1826 = Kelenderis p. 9, 4a. Near VF, toned, some roughness, reverse off center. Very rare. Estimate: 200 USD

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 400	Auction date: 28 June 2017
Lot number: 299 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: CILICIA, Uncertain. 4th century BC. AR Obol (11mm, 0.80 g, 8h). Crowned and bearded head right (of Persian Great King?) / Forepart of Pegasos right. Göktürk –; Troxell & Kagan –; SNG France 482–4; SNG Levante 232. Good VF, toned. Excellent metal. Estimate: 150 USD ILLUSTRAZIONE: UN'IMBOSCATA PERSIANA AD UN MANIPOLO DI GRECI.

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