Triton XXVI - Session 1
Date: 2023-01-10 00:00:00
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SIKYONIA, Sikyon. Circa 350-340 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 12.08 g, 3h). Chimaera advancing left; wreath above, ΣI below / Dove flying left; E above tail feathers; all within wreath. BCD Peloponnesos 216; HGC 5, 199. Toned, light scratches. Good VF. Very rare. Ex CNG inventory 829039 (August 2009); BCD Collection (not in previous sales).
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SIKYONIA, Sikyon. Circa 335-330 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 5.85 g, 6h). Chimaera standing left, raising right forepaw; ΣE below / Dove flying left within wreath. BCD Peloponnesos 229 (this coin); HGC 5, 209 corr. (letters on obv.); BMC 68. Toned, minor roughness. Near EF. From the Pythagoras Collection. Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 229.
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ACHAIA, Patrai. Circa 40-35 BC. Æ Hexachalkon (22mm, 4.67 g, 9h). Nikostratos, son of Kallistrates, magistrate. Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing tainia / Athena advancing right, holding shield and spear; palm to left, monogram to right, NIKOCTPATOC KAΛΛICTPATOY ΠATPЄωN around. BCD Peloponnesos 518–20; HGC 5, 60; Weber 3961 (this coin). Dark brown patina with patches of red. VF. Ex Lampasas Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 118, 13 September 2021), lot 219; Christopher Morcom Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 76, 12 September 2007), lot 536; Sir Hermann Weber Collection (1924).
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ELIS, Olympia. 106th Olympiad. 356 BC. AR Stater (27mm, 11.92 g, 12h). Head of Zeus left, wearing laurel wreath / Eagle, with closed wings, standing right on Ionic capital; FAΛE-IΩN around. Seltman, Temple 183–4 var. (dies CD/– [unlisted rev. die]); BCD Olympia 128 var. (legend split; same obv. die); HGC 5, 370 (same obv. die as illustration); SNG Delepierre 2147 var. (legend split; same obv. die); McClean 6632 var. (same; same obv. die); K. Schefold, Meisterwerke Griechische Kunst (Basel, 1960), 516 (this coin). Old collection tone, minor flan flaw in field on obverse, die break on reverse. Good VF. From the Pythagoras Collection. Ex private collection in Basel (per Schefold [1960]).
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ARKADIA, Pheneos. Circa 360-350/40 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 11.16 g, 7h). Head of Demeter to right, wearing grain ear wreath, elaborate disc and crescent earring with pendants, and pearl necklace / Hermes, nude but for his petasos and a cloak over his shoulders, holding kerykeion in right hand, partially facing and advancing left, his head turned right to gaze at the infant Arkas, whom he holds on his left arm with his left hand, and who raises his right hand towards Hermes' face; ΦΕ-ΝΕ-ΩΝ around below. Schultz 6.13 (V3/R5 – this coin); Traeger, Arkadien 515; BCD Peloponnesos 1622; HGC 5, 976; SNG Berry 867; SNG Fitzwilliam 3897; SNG Lockett 2525; BMC 13; Gillet 1001 = Regling, Antike 664; Kraay & Hirmer 515; Locker Lampson 241 = Weber 4322 (all from the same dies). Deep old cabinet tone, marks and scratches. Near VF. Artistic and rare. From the Pythagoras Collection. Ex Naville V (18 June 1923), lot 2260.The stater coinage of Pheneos was very small: it was struck from only three obverse and seven reverse dies. This means the actual output was probably fairly limited, especially since the first obverse die almost immediately broke and was destroyed. These coins were surely designed to pay mercenaries: the years around 360 BC were dangerous ones in Greece and there was a considerable amount of fighting going on. The fact that such beautiful coins were made for such a reason may seem surprising, after all soldiers could be paid just in bullion, but it once again shows that civic pride was a major factor in the way coins were conceived and designed. Here the head of Demeter is remarkably elegant, especially given how beautifully struck and sharp it is; as for Hermes and the infant Arkas on the reverse, one immediately thinks of the Hermes of Praxiteles, which was made circa 343 in nearby Olympia.
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ARKADIA, Stymphalos. Circa 350 BC. AR Stater (26mm, 11.67 g, 2h). Head of Artemis right, hair tied in bun behind her head, wearing laurel wreath, ornate earring with rosette, crescent, and five pendants, and pearl necklace / Nude Herakles striding left, lion skin around left arm, holding bow in left hand, preparing to strike with club held aloft in his right hand; ΣΤYMΦAΛIΩN to left, ΣΟ between legs. Traeger, Arkadien 599; BCD Peloponnesos 1704–5; HGC 5, 1022; SNG Copenhagen 287 (same obv. die); SNG Spencer-Churchill 168 = Gillet 1005 (this coin); Kraay & Hirmer 514 (same obv. die); Traité III 884, pl. CCXXIV, 22 (same obv. die). Toned, holed in field in antiquity, a few cleaning scratches under tone, die breaks and minor double strike on obverse. VF. A masterwork of ancient art. Very rare, approximately 25 known, of which 15 are in museums. From the Pythagoras Collection. Ex Leu 77 (11 May 2000), lot 226; Charles Gillet Collection; Capt. C. E. Spencer-Churchill Collection; Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933), lot 1301.The reverse design of this stater suggests that the artist had in mind a different approach to the myth of the Sixth Labor of Herakles when he engraved the die. According to the traditional rendering of the myth, Herakles, with the assistance of the gods Athena and Hephaistos, destroyed the Stymphalian Birds by shooting them down with his arrows once they took flight. Generally, this is the rendering of the event depicted on most coins – Herakles drawing his bow to take aim at the birds in flight. Such an active scene, however, when depicted on the coinage, results in a compact and often dense image. The engravers at Stymphalos, however, chose to employ a more novel and somewhat subtler design. Rather than adopting a literal interpretation, they chose to depict the hero in a more vigorous pose. Here, Herakles strides forth to do battle, lion skin flowing over his left arm behind him, while he holds his bow in his left hand (the only overt reference to the myth). His club, held in his raised right hand, is poised to strike. What he is about to strike, however, is the ethnic which curves upward in flight before him and serves as surrogate birds.
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CRETE, Aptera. Circa 280 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 11.36 g, 6h). Obverse die signed by the artist Pythodoros. Head of Artemis right, wearing ornate stephanos, solar-disk pendant earring with three drops, and pearl necklace; [A-ΠTEPAI]ΩN around, ΠYΘOΔΩPOY to right / The hero Apteros-Ptoloioikos, wearing crested helmet and cuirass, holding shield and spear in left hand, right hand raised toward fir tree to left; ΠTO[ΛI]-OI-KOΣ around. Svoronos, Numismatique 5 (same dies as illustration); Le Rider, Crétoises, p. 36, 268; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 1 (same dies); Boston MFA Supp. 108 (same dies); Boutin –; Evans –; Traeger –. Lightly toned, typical areas of weak strike, scattered light marks. VF. Extremely rare. From the JTB Collection. Ex Triton XXIV (19 January 2021), lot 534; Münzen und Medaillen AG 81 (18 September 1995), lot 74.
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CRETE, Knossos. Circa 300-270 BC. AR Stater (23.5mm, 111.13 g, 1h). Head of Hera left, wearing stephanos decorated with palmettes, ornate earring with upward crescent and three drops, and pearl necklace / Labyrinth; A-P across field, spearhead to left, thunderbolt to right; KNΩΣIΩN below. Svoronos, Numismatique 67, pl. VI, 6 (same rev. die); Le Rider, Crétoises, pl. XXXII, 5 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 373; BMC 24–5; Dewing 1986 (same obv. die); Gillet 1008; Gulbenkian 566; Hunterian 12; de Luynes 2333. Toned, a few old scratches under tone, area of weak strike, reverse slightly off center. Good VF. From the Pythagoras Collection.The ancient city of Knossos, the remains of which were excavated by Sir Arthur Evans, beginning in 1900, was founded in the Minoan Period (circa 1700-1400 BC) as a large and complex palace-city. Although the exact origin of the word "labyrinth, as well as its location, remains open to scholarly conjecture, the intricate maze of rooms and interior courtyards of this palace-city contributed to the later Greek use of the word to describe a maze and the source of the events connected with it to Crete.According to the Greek myth, Minos was the first king of Crete. Although he gave the island its first constitution, ordered the construction of the palace at Knossos, and was the first to build a navy, he was a cruel tyrant and imperialist. One of his subject cities was Athens. He demanded from its citizens as payment every nine years seven male youths and seven female virgins. Minos would feed them then to the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull who was held in the Labyrinth, a large walled maze. To stop this brutal tribute, the Athenian hero, Theseus, had himself sent as part of the required tribute. With the assistance of Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, Theseus was able to navigate the Labyrinth successfully and kill the Minotaur.
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CRETE, Knossos. Circa 300-270 BC. AR Stater (25.5mm, 10.83 g, 7h). Head of Hera left, wearing stephanos decorated with palmettes, ornate earring with upward crescent and three drops, and pearl necklace / Labyrinth; A-P across field, spearhead to left, thunderbolt to right; KNΩΣIΩN below. Svoronos, Numismatique 67; SNG Copenhagen 373; BMC 24–5; Boston MFA 1279 (same obv. die); Dewing 1896; Gillet 1008; Gulbenkian 566; de Luynes 2333 (same dies). Toned, some roughness, trace deposits, a few scratches, area of weak strike on obverse. VF. From the S & S Collection. Ex Dr. J. S. Wilkinson Collection (Malter 49, 15 November 1992), lot 659.The ancient city of Knossos, the remains of which were excavated by Sir Arthur Evans, beginning in 1900, was founded in the Minoan Period (circa 1700-1400 BC) as a large and complex palace-city. Although the exact origin of the word labyrinth, as well as its location, remains open to scholarly conjecture, the intricate maze of rooms and interior courtyards of this palace-city contributed to the later Greek use of the word to describe a maze and the source of the events connected with it to Crete.According to the Greek myth, Minos was the first king of Crete. Although he gave the island its first constitution, ordered the construction of the palace at Knossos, and was the first to build a navy, he was a cruel tyrant and imperialist. One of his subject cities was Athens. He demanded from its citizens as payment every nine years seven youths and seven virgins. Minos would feed them then to the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull who was held in the Labyrinth, a large walled maze. To stop this brutal tribute, the Athenian hero, Theseus, had himself sent as part of the required tribute. With the assistance of Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, Theseus was able to navigate the Labyrinth successfully and kill the Minotaur.
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CRETE, Olous. Circa 300-270 BC. AR Stater (26.5mm, 10.75 g, 12h). Draped bust of Artemis Britomartis left, hair in band with laurel leaves adorning the top edge, wearing pearl necklace; quiver over her shoulder / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field, OΛONTIΩN to right. Svoronos, Numismatique 1, pl. XXII, 23 = Gillet 1023 = C.S. Liebe, Gotha numaria (Amsterdam: R. & J. Westenios, 1730), p. 191 (this coin); SNG Fitzwilliam 3976 (same dies); BMC 1; Hunterian 1; Mionnet II p. 289, 243. Deep cabinet tone, old cleaning scratches under tone on reverse. EF. Fine style. Extremely rare, one of seven known, and the sole example not in a public collection. From the Pythagoras Collection. Ex Numismatica Genevensis 7 (27 November 2012), lot 205; Charles Gillet Collection; Schloss Friedenstein (Gotha) Collection (collection of Friedrich II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg).Located on the northeastern coast of Crete, the city of Olous is now sunken and a popular underwater archeological park for divers. Its mint seems to have commenced striking coins circa 330 BC, but with a minimal output compared to other Cretan cities, and its coins are all exceptionally rare today. Olous contained a large wooden temple to the Cretan goddess Britomartis ("sweet maiden"), whose origins go back to Minoan times and was often syncretized with Artemis, as seen on this attractive silver stater. Though one of the lesser local deities, Britomartis had an elaborate mythology related by the Alexandrian scholar Kallimachos. According to one tale, she was pursued by King Minos with the intent to ravish her, but escaped by throwing herself into a fishing boat's net and was taken by the crew to the mainland, thus bringing her cult to Greece. Her name and virginal character were later adopted into the allegorical female knight Britomart in Edmund Spenser's epic poem dedicated to Elizabeth I, The Faerie Queene.
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CYCLADES, Melos. Circa 440-416 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 14.31 g, 6h). Apple on stem with [two leaves] flanking above / Fig leaf within dotted circle border. Kraay, Melos 41a (A13iii/P31) = Jameson 1294 = Traité III pl. CCXLII, 8 (this coin); HGC 6, 806; McClean 7268 (same dies); Pozzi 2031 (same dies). Toned, minor roughness, metal flaws. Good VF. Very rare. From the Pythagoras Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 76 (19 September 1991), lot 745; Hess-Leu 45 (12 May 1970), lot 209; Robert Jameson Collection (publ. 1913); Melos, 1907 Hoard (IGCH 27).The simplicity of Melos' coinage belies the historical importance of the volcanic island and its eponymous city. Its founders hailed from Bronze Age Sparta, circa 1100 BC, and by circa 600 BC Melos boasted an excellent harbor and a fortified citadel with a large agora and theater. Starting circa 530 BC, its early silver coinage was struck on the Milesian standard and depicted either a wine pitcher (oinochoe) or an apple (milo) on the obverse; the latter is likely a canting pun for Melos. While extremely rare today, these early staters bore a variety of reverse types, starting with a simple quadripartite incuse and progressing to specialized floral and geometric designs, including the fig leaf seen here. During the Peloponnesian War, Melos, true to its Spartan roots, refused to join the Delian League and was subjected to a horrific siege by Athens, whose soldiers put all adult males to the sword and enslaved the women and children. Melos recovered from this disaster and today, as Milos, is a popular tourist destination most famous for a beautiful Hellenistic statue found on the island in 1820, the Venus de Milo.
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CYCLADES, Paros. Early 490s-early 480s BC. AR Drachm (15.5mm, 6.01 g). Goat kneeling right / Quadripartite incuse square. Sheedy Class D, Group 2, unlisted dies (but cf. 110 for similar); HGC 6, 655. Lightly toned with slight iridescence, traces of find patina. Good VF. Ex Alde (19 October 2016), lot 88.
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CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS, Pantikapaion. Circa 340-325 BC. AV Stater (19.5mm, 9.13 g, 11h). Head of Pan left, wearing ivy wreath / Griffin, holding spear in its mouth, standing left, head facing, forepaw raised, on grain ear; Π-A-N around. Frolova, Catalogue, Group V, dies B/– (unlisted rev. die); Anokhin 1021; MacDonald 54; HGC 7, 20; SNG BM Black Sea 864; Gulbenkian 588–90; Jameson 1361; Pozzi 1150; Sartiges 1580; CNG 117, lot 165 (same dies); Triton VII, lot 151 (same dies). Lustrous. NGC photo certification 6557414-001, graded Ch MS, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5, Fine Style. Well centered and struck. Pantikapaion was founded by Greek colonists from Miletos in the late seventh century BC. Situated on the west side of the Cimmerian Bosporos, in what is now called the Crimea, it achieved great prosperity through its exploitation of the abundant fisheries of the straits and the export of wheat from the Crimea. This wealth is attested by its splendid gold coinage, which commenced in the mid-4th century BC, and by the magnificently furnished rock tombs of its principal citizens in the same period. Later, it was to become a regional capital of the kingdom of Mithradates VI of Pontos (120-63 BC) and later still the seat of the kings of Bosporos (first century BC – fourth century AD). The coinage of Pantikapaion seems to have commenced with silver issues in the latter part of the fifth century BC, but it is for its beautiful gold staters that the mint is chiefly noted. They depict the head of the god Pan (a pun on the name of the city) and on the reverse, the griffin that Herodotos describes as being the guardian of the remote sources of gold.
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KOLCHIS, Phasis. Circa 425-325 BC. BI Half Siglos – Hemidrachm (11mm, 2.41 g, 7h). Archaic head of female right in linear circle border / Head of bull right in linear circle border. Hind 7; HGC 7, 215; SNG BM Black Sea 1014; SNG Copenhagen 98. Toned. Good VF. Attractive for issue. From the Dr. Robert Misbin Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXX (11 June 1994), lot 151.
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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31.5mm, 16.73 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 5, year 206 BE (February 91 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, Pegasos grazing left; star-in-crescent to left; to right, ςΣ (year) above monogram; E (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ p. 11, dies D33/R– (unlisted rev. die); HGC 7, 338; DCA 688; Gulbenkian 937 (same obv. die). Bright surfaces, a little roughness on obverse, minor double strike on reverse. Near EF. From the GTP Collection. Ex Roma V (23 March 2013), lot 421 (erroneous dies cited).
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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.72 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 11, year 212 BE (August 85 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; to left, star-in-crescent above monogram, BIΣ (year) above monogram; IA (month) below; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ p. 16, dies D3/R4; M.J. Price, "Mithradates VI Eupator, Dionysus, and the Coinages of the Black Sea" in NC 1968, pl. I, 6 = RG 16, pl. suppl. B, 12 = Mionnet II 10 (same obv. die); HGC 7, 338; DCA 688. Old collection tone, some marks. Good VF. Ex Mark and Lottie Salton Collection; Salton-Schlessinger FPL 27 (Fall 1958), no. 6.
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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.72 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 9, year 223 (June 74 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; to left, star-in-crescent above monogram; to right, ΓKΣ (year) above monogram; Θ (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ dies O48/R– (unlisted rev. die); HGC 7, 340; DCA 692; SNG Ashmolean 201 (same obv. die); Davis 186 (same obv. die); Pozzi 2100 (same obv. die). Attractively toned, a few light scratches. EF. Well centered and struck, with a wonderful portrait. Mithradates was a Hellenistic monarch par excellence, his career driven by megalomaniacal ambitions leading to murderous assaults upon family and followers and disastrous foreign adventures against superior forces. His portraiture attempts to mimic the gods with its bold staring gaze and unruly, free-flowing hair, but at its most extreme is a personification of hysteria in its Dionysiac sense.At the age of 18, Mithradates overthrew his mother's regency and embarked on a career of conquest, bringing most of the lands around the Black Sea into his domain. His expansionist aims inevitably brought him into conflict with Rome, and in preparation for the coming war he built up the largest army in Asia, unleashing it in 88 BC in what would be the First Mithradatic War. He sought to undermine the Roman power base by ordering the massacre of every Roman citizen in Asia in which nearly 80,000 people perished.The Romans were not intimidated, and when Mithradates crossed over to Greece proper as 'Liberator', the Roman legions under Sulla smashed his army. Mithradates retreated to Pontus, from where he continued to skirmish with the Romans, suffering more defeats to the general Lucullus. In 63 BC, having suffered a final defeat by Pompey and facing a revolt by his own son Pharnakes, the elderly king tried to commit suicide by taking poison, but he had inured himself to its affects by years of small counterdoses, and so had to be stabbed to death by one of his mercenaries.
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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33.5mm, 16.41 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated BE 231 (67/6 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; star-in-crescent to left, monogram to right, AΛΣ (date) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ p. 22, dies D77/R– (unlisted rev. die); HGC 7, 340; DCA 692; SNG BN 826 (same obv. die). Toned. EF. Fine style. Extremely rare date, one of only eight known. From the GTP Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XLVI.1 (Winter 2021), no. 564362; Jonathan P. Rosen Collection (Triton XXIII, 14 January 2020), lot 296; Roma XIV (21 September 2017), lot 275; Roma VII (22 March 2014), lot 759.
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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.30 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Kallatis mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / [B]AΣIΛEΩΣ [Λ]YΣIMAXOY, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear diagonally in background; (HP)O to inner left, KAΛ on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 139, dies D6/R1; AMNG I 258; HGC 3, 1824; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Stockholm 838 (Thrace; same obv. die). Typical die wear, slight bend in flan. Good VF. Ex Peter J. Merani Collection (Triton XXIV, 19 January 2021), lot 18; CNG inventory 714302 (July 1999).
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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.31 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Kallatis mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BAΣIΛEΩ[Σ] ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear diagonally in background; (HP)O to inner left, KAΛ on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 140, dies D6/R2; AMNG I 258; HGC 3, 1824; SNG Stockholm 838 (Thrace; same obv. die). Underlying luster. EF. From the North River Collection. Ex Triton XV (3 January 2012), lot 1192.
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PAPHLAGONIA, Sinope. Circa 350/30-300 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 5.99 g, 6h). Aiginetic standard. Kallia–, magistrate. Head of nymph left, hair in sakkos; aphlaston to left / Sea eagle on dolphin left; KAΛΛ[IA] below eagle's wings, ΣINΩ in exergue. RG 22; HGC 7, 1488; SNG BM Black Sea 1471; SNG BN 490–1. Light iridescent tone. Superb EF. From the GTP Collection. Ex Roma VII (22 March 2014), lot 741.