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439. WESTERN ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. 5th century BC. AR Hemistater (16mm, 5.60 g, 1h). Cow standing left, head right; below, calf kneeling right, suckling / Male head with African features left. Gemini IV, lot 195 (same dies); Numismatica Ars Classica 52, lot 177 (same dies); otherwise unpublished. VF, toned, porous. Extremely rare, the third known. ($2000)
3:1 2:1 2:1 3:1 440. WESTERN ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. 5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.35 g). Milesian standard. Head of lion right / Uncertain symbol, possibly a diadem; uncertain inscription around; all within incuse square. SNG Kayhan 1538 var. (head left, no inscription on rev.), otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Near EF, struck with worn obverse die. ($500) Ex Browndyke Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 318, 15 January 2014), lot 244.
441. WESTERN ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Circa 145-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.20 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Head of Demeter right, wearing wreath of grain ears and triple-pendant earring / Two Kabeiroi, nude but for cloak tied at their necks, standing facing, each wearing laurel wreath and holding staff in outer hand; QEW@ kÅ∫E5rW@ at sides, sUr5W@ below, F to lower right; all within wreath. Nicolet-Pierre & Amandry dies unlisted (Syros); HGC 6, 709 (Syros); Dewing 1968; Pozzi 2056; Winterthur 2319. Near EF, toned. minor porosity, slightly soft strike on brow. Very rare. ($4000) Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 69, 8 June 2005), lot 336; Classical Numismatic Group 60 (22 May, 2002), lot 625; Spink America (7 December 1995), lot 2077; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part IV, Sotheby’s, 19 June 1991), lot 295.
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442. IONIA, Ephesos. Phanes. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Forty-eighth Stater (5mm, 0.32 g). Head of stag right; three pellets to left / Incuse square punch with raised lines within. Weidauer –; Linzalone 1107 (this coin); SNG von Aulock 7788 var. (no pellets); Zhuyuetang 10 var. (same); Triton IX, lot 923; CNG 81, lot 512. Good VF, minor die rust. Very rare. ($750) 119