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Lot 12. Kolonides AE Tetrachalkon

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Kolonides AE Tetrachalkon

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Bidding closed (Sunday, May 17th, 19:06:00 CEST)
Current time: Friday, November 22nd, 08:35:08 CET

Price realised: CHF 850.00 (4 bids)
Approx. EUR 913.06 / USD 962.39 / GBP 761.37

High bidder: Bidder 2

eAuction #37, Lot 12. Estimate: CHF 500.00

Kolonides, Peloponnesos. Under the Achaean League. AE Tetrachalkon (22 mm, 3.32 g), c. 188-146 BC.
Obv. ΣΩΔ[AMOΣ], Zeus, nude, standing left, holding Nike in right and long sceptre in left.
Rev. AXAIΩN KOΛΩNIΔH, Achaia seated left, holding wreath in right and long sceptre in left.
BMC -; Clerk -; BCD Peloponnesos 775 (this coin).

Extremely rare. Only the second example known and, with the other being in the Numismatic Museum in Athens, the only one in private hands. Glossy green patina and about very fine.

From the BCD collection, ex LHS 96 (2006), 775.



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