CRETE
Attractive Coin of Knossos Depicting the Labyrinth
190. Crete, Knossos AR Stater. Head of Demeter or Ariadne left, wearing earring and necklace, hair rolled and bound with corn-wreath / Maeanderpattern Labyrinth, in centre of which five pellets, incuse square punch in each corner; all within shallow incuse circle. BMC 9; Svoronos 39; Le Rider, Monnaies Crétoise, 23. 11.00g, 25mm, 2h. Very Rare. Good Very Fine.
5,000
191. Aeolis, Kyme AR Tetradrachm. Kallias, magistrate. Circa 160-140 BC. Reduced Attic standard. Diademed head of the Amazon Kyme right / Horse standing right, left foreleg raised, one-handled cup (emblem of Kyme) below, ΚYMAIΩN to right, KΑΛΛΙΑΣ in exergue; all within laurel-wreath. Cf. J.H. Oakley, The Autonomous Wreathed Tetradrachms of Kyme, Aeolis, ANSMN 27, 1982, 24 s. no. 12 (these dies). 16.78g, 33mm, 11h. Extremely Fine. Attractively toned.
1,000
TROAS
192
193
192. Troas, Thymbra Æ16. Circa 4th Century BC. Laureate head of Zeus Ammon left / Eight-rayed star, Θ-Y above. BMC Troas pg. 89, 4; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 1584. 5.12g, 16mm, 12h. Rare. Extremely Fine. 100 193. Troas, Assos AR Drachm. Circa 350 BC. Helmeted head of Athena left / Bucranium, ΑΣΣΙOΝ around. SNG München 151; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen 226-7. Rare. Some scrapes, otherwise Extremely Fine.
500
IONIA
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195
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194. Ionia, uncertain mint. EL 1/24 Stater. Circa 650-600 BC. Milesian standard. Flattened striated surface / Incuse square punch. BMC 19; SNG Kayhan 682; SNG von Aulock -; Weidauer -. 0.62g, 5mm. Good Very Fine.
1,000
195. Ionia, uncertain mint. EL 1/24 Stater. Circa 650-550 BC. Raised Swastika / Incuse square punch. SNG von Aulock 1778; Boston 1782 Taf. 84; Bodenstedt, Taf. 11,11 (‘incertum’); Rosen Coll. 365. 0.66g, 7mm. Extremely Fine. 300 196. Ionia, uncertain mint. EL 1/48 Stater. Circa 650-550 BC. Raised Swastika / Incuse square punch. SNG von Aulock -; cf. Boston 1782 (1/24 Stater); cf. above lot. 0.40g, 6mm. Very Rare. Good Very Fine.
62
200