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LOT 2600
Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion AE 20mm. Circa 310-304/3 BC.
Bearded head of satyr to right / Π-Α-Ν around forepart of griffin to left; below, sturgeon to left. Anokhin 1023; SNG BM Black Sea 869-71; SNG Stancomb 542; MacDonald 69; HGC 7, 113. Good Very Fine.(8.37gr, 20mm, 11h.).
Provenance
From a private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s.
From Westminster collection, central London, UK.
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