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534 Caria, Halikarnassos (c.150-50 B.C.), Silver Drachm, 4.48g, . Head of Helios facing, slightly inclined to right. Rev. AΛIKAPN, bust of Athena facing to right, draped and wearing a crested Corinthian helmet, uncertain magistrate’s name ...EOΔΩPO... on right (SNG Keckman 51; BMC 43- 47; SNG von Aulock 8087 var.; cf. SNG Kayhan 762). Excellent style for this issue, broad flan, extremely fine and rare. $ 1,000 Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd., London, 10 March 1987 Wonderful Transitional Style Stater of Kaunos 535 Caria, Kaunos (c.480-460 B.C.), Silver Stater, 11.78g, . Young naked winged male figure, with winged heels, in kneeling-running position to right, raising his left hand, a Carian monogram above his left wing. Rev. Lion crouching to left, its head turned back to face to right and raising its right foreleg, Carian letters above, all within an incuse square (E.S.G. Robinson, ‘A Find of Archaic Coins from South-West Asia Minor’, NC 1936, p. 268, 10, pl. XIV (these dies); SNG Lockett 2917 (these dies); Gulbenkian 779 (these dies); Rosen 624 (these dies); SNG von Aulock 2351 (this obverse die); cf. H.A. Troxell, ‘Winged Carians’, in Essays to Thompson, p. 263, 41). Exceptional transitional style, beautiful old cabinet tone, good very fine to nearly extremely fine, rare. $ 8,000 Ex Bank Leu AG, Auction 7, Zurich, 9 May 1973, lot 233 Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1 January 1984
536 Caria, Kaunos (c.410-390 B.C.), Silver Stater, 11.71g, . Winged female figure (Iris?), wearing a long kiton, in kneeling-running position to left, her head turned to right, holding a kerykeion and a wreath in her outstretched hands. Rev. Conical baetyl, Δ (inverted) and Γ above, all within a shallow incuse square (Konuk, ‘The Early Coinage of Kaunos’, in Essays to Price, 114 (O53/R54), pl. 50; SNG von Aulock 2350 = Jameson 1601 (these dies); Kraay - Hirmer pl. 187, 636 (these dies); cf. H.A. Troxell, ‘Winged Carians’, in Essays to Thompson, p. 260, 28). Lightly toned, good very fine. $ 7,000 Purchased from Athena, Munich, 8 October 1987 537 Caria, Knidos (c.490-465 B.C.), Silver Drachm, 6.24g, . Forepart of a roaring lion to right, its jaws gaping and tongue protruding. Rev. Head of Aphrodite facing to right, within an incuse square (Cahn 56, 6 (V30 / R43) (this coin), pl. IV; SNG Keckman 121 (these dies); SNG von Aulock 2597 (these dies); Jameson 1532 (these dies)). Well-centred on a broad flan, attractive iridescent cabinet tone, about extremely fine, with an old pedigree. $ 3,500 Ex H. de Nanteuil Collection, 555 Ex J. Vinchon, Nouveau Drouot, Paris, 11-13 April 1988, lot 508
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Page 5 and 6: A Gold Stater of Ephesos 505 Ionia,
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Page 11 and 12: 517 Ionia, Miletos (c.350-334 B.C.)
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