Details
LOT 2922
Crete, Knossos AE 28mm. Circa 40-30 BC.
Pseudo-autonomous issue, struck during the Roman Republic. Kydas, cretarch. Laureate head of Zeus to right; B beneath neck, thunderbolt beneath chin / Eagle standing to right with open wings; KYΔAΣ in three lines across field. RPC I 934; Svoronos, Numismatique 147-8; SNG Copenhagen 388. Near Very Fine. Edge split.(15.83gr, 28mm, 12h). [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 562, 15 May 2024, lot 329 (dealer's ticket included);
From an old UK collection;
From the collection of a London antiquarian.
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