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Lot 38. Olympia countermarked AE Unit, ex BCD
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Bidding closed
(Sunday, February 19th, 19:19:00 CET)
Current time: Sunday, November 24th, 04:43:38 CET
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CHF 355.00 (5 bids)
Approx. EUR 381.34 / USD 397.28 / GBP 317.09
Bid history
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CHF 355.00
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Bidder 3 *
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2012-02-19, 19:05:11
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CHF 355.00
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Bidder 2 *
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2012-02-19, 19:18:27
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CHF 320.00
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Bidder 2 *
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2012-02-19, 19:18:10
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CHF 260.00
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Bidder 2 *
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2012-02-19, 19:17:48
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CHF 160.00
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Bidder 1 *
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2012-02-12, 17:42:26
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* User names of other bidders are replaced by Bidder 1, 2, and so on.
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Bidder 3
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eAuction #3, Lot 38. Estimate: CHF 175.00
Olympia (for countermark), undertype: Achaean League. AE Unit (20 mm, 4.21 g), after 146 BC.
Obv. Flat, countermark: eagle standing right with wings closed, in fields, F - A.
Rev. Flat.
Moustaka 189-190
Rare. Undertype worn flat, countermark very fine.
From the BCD collection and ex Leu 90 (2004), 299.
This coin was countermarked at some time after the defeat of the Achaean League by the Romans in 146. At some point the League bronzes must have been demonetized and, in order to allow them to continue circulating, they needed to be countermarked. Quite a few of these pieces have been found at Olympia. While Franke, p. 22, suggests this countermarking took place immediately after the defeat, the extremely worn condition of many of the coins countermarked implies that they had circulated far longer.
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