Statere di Marion fine VI sec. a. C.

[apollonia]

Salve.

Passando dalle parti di Cipro alla ricerca di Alessandri non comuni, ho trovato questo statere di Marion (o Marium) che ho pensato di condividere per la sua veneranda età, non disgiunta da rarità e qualità.

Baldwin's Auctions Ltd, Auction 37, lot 740, 04.05.2003

ANCIENT COINS
Greek Coins
Cyprus
No.: 740
Estimate: £ 800.-
Marion late 6th Century BC, Stater 10.49g, forepart of lion right with open mouth and raised forepaw, rev shallow incuse square with irregular markings, among which the letters Ba Ta may be read (see Price-Waggoner, Asyut Hoard, 810 var; J H Kagan, An Archaic Greek Coin Hoard, NC 1994 p.33, 58-62 and pl.4). Old toning, from an old collection, very rare, very fine.
 

Provenance: Spink Numismatic Circular 1994 no. 2007, put to Caria with a hint at Cyprus. Asyut 810 ("Uncertain Cyprus Mint"), of similar style on spread fabric, has letters Ba Ta on shoulder of lion. The attribution to Marion is uncertain; Amathus is another possibility.
£800-1000