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Lot 64. Tenea AE Tetrachalkon

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Tenea AE Tetrachalkon

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Bidding closed (Sunday, September 11th, 19:32:00 CEST)
Current time: Wednesday, November 27th, 07:32:52 CET

Price realised: CHF 600.00 (7 bids)
Approx. EUR 644.92 / USD 676.70 / GBP 539.07

High bidder: Bidder 3

eAuction #50, Lot 64. Estimate: CHF 200.00

Tenea (under the Achaean League), Achaia. AE Tetrachalkon (19 mm, 4.35 g), 191-146 BC.
Obv. KΛEAP/XOΣ, Zeus, nude, standing left, holding Nike in his right hand and long scepter with his left.
Rev. AXAIΩN TENEATAN, Female figure, Achaia, seated left, holding wreath in her right hand and long scepter with her left.
BMC -. BCD 74 (this coin). Clerk 94 corr. (misread as Tegea).

Extremely rare, one of very few known. Very fine.

From the BCD Collection, LHS 96, 8 May 2006, 74.

Tenea was a small town south of Corinth with a famous sanctuary of Apollo. It struck a very small issue of Achaean League Tetrachalkoi and some provincial coins under the Severans, all of which are extremely rare today.



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