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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientnut, post: 2429457, member: 73212&quot;]I hope I’m not tempting fate by posting these two recent acquisitions before they arrive. I won them in Nomos 12 last Sunday with much lower bids than expected. The coin I won from Nomos (Obolos 4) in February arrived 31 days after the auction closed, so once again I will be chewing my fingernails for a month...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://nomosag.com/source/images/auctions/12/image00025.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Gela, Sicily, AR Tetradrachm, c 450-440 BC, 29mm, 16.45 g 5h. OBV: Quadriga driven slowly to right by a bearded charioteer; above, Nike flying right to crown the horses; in exergue, palmette with tendrils / REV: ϹΕΛΑΣ Forepart of man-headed bull to right. Gulbenkian 199. Jenkins, <i>Gela</i> 354 (<i>same dies</i>). Rizzo pl. XVII, 20. SNG ANS 65 (<i>same dies</i>), HGC 2 343 (Scarce). </p><p><i>Ex: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc., Auction 100, October 7, 2015, lot 1267.</i></p><p><i>Ex: Numismatik Lanz Munchen, Auction 50, November 27, 1989, lot 61.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Another Magna Graecia city crossed off the list. The winning bid was about 75% of what it sold for 7 months ago and 70% of what my dealer/advisor said was very reasonable for the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://nomosag.com/source/images/auctions/12/image00091.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Kyzikos, Mysia, EL stater, 450-430 BC, 19x15mm, 16.09 g. OBV: Youthful Dionysos reclining left, on the back of a panther moving to right, holding a kantharos in his extended right hand and resting his left on the side of the panther; to left, below knee, tip of his thyrsos; below, over panther’s legs, tunny fish left. REV: Quadripartite incuse square. BMFA 1541. SNG Paris 302-303. Von Fritze 155.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was the only bidder on this coin, perhaps because NAC 92, with lots of choice coins, was held the next day. I much prefer it to the example which sold in CNG 102 May 18:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.cngcoins.com/photos/big/10200381.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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