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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8136891, member: 110226"]From Roma XX, lot 334</p><p><br /></p><p>Baktria, 'Athenian Series' AR Tetradrachm. Uncertain mint in the Oxus region, circa 261-239/8 BC. Attic standard. Head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl; monogram behind / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig, crescent and grape bunch behind, AΘE before. Roma E-67, 583 (same dies); cf. Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; Mitchiner -; N&A -, cf. 13-17 (different monogram); SNG ANS -. 16.64g, 22mm, 6h. </p><p><br /></p><p>About Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; one of only four known examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1418002[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This hoard must be the main source for these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Next: Another coin from a documented hoard</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8136891, member: 110226"]From Roma XX, lot 334 Baktria, 'Athenian Series' AR Tetradrachm. Uncertain mint in the Oxus region, circa 261-239/8 BC. Attic standard. Head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl; monogram behind / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig, crescent and grape bunch behind, AΘE before. Roma E-67, 583 (same dies); cf. Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; Mitchiner -; N&A -, cf. 13-17 (different monogram); SNG ANS -. 16.64g, 22mm, 6h. About Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; one of only four known examples. From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA. [ATTACH=full]1418002[/ATTACH] This hoard must be the main source for these coins. [B]Next: Another coin from a documented hoard[/B][/QUOTE]
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