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Lot 17. Stymphalos AE Chalkous, c. 360s-350s

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Stymphalos bronze
Stymphalos AE Chalkous, c. 360s-350s

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Bidding closed (Sunday, December 13th, 19:08:30 CET)
Current time: Monday, November 25th, 10:48:47 CET

Price realised: CHF 800.00 (7 bids)
Approx. EUR 858.86 / USD 897.56 / GBP 713.96

High bidder: Bidder 2

eAuction #43, Lot 17. Estimate: CHF 500.00

Stymphalos, Arcadia. AE Chalkous (14 mm, 1.82 g), c. 360s-350s BC.
Obv. Head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin headdress.
Rev. Σ-T, head and neck of a crested water-bird to right, emerging from the leaves of a water pantain with a fritillary on either side.
MG 265 = Traité III 883, pl. CCXXIV, 21 (same dies, but noted as AR on the plate in error); BCD Peloponnesos 1699 (this coin).

Extremely rare. Very fine.

From the BCD collection, ex LHS 96 (2006), 1699.

While Stymphalos - the location of the sixth labor of Herakles - issued a number of silver coins (especially Obols), its bronze coinage is of an extreme rarity and among the hardest to find among all Peloponnesian minor coinages.



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