Details
LOT 3125
Cyclades, Andros AE 17mm. Circa 200-180 BC.
Head of young Dionysos to right, wearing ivy-wreath; c/m: kantharos / Filletted thyrsos; Α-Ν-Δ-ΡΙ across fields, bunch of grapes to right. BMC Crete pg. 86, 14; Joy 510; SNG Copenhagen 613; HGC 6, 472; for countermark see Tselekas & Papageorgiadou-Banis, Countermarks on the Hellenistic coinages of the Cyclades in ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 53, p. 159. Near Very Fine. Very rare countermarked Cycladic bronze.(4.11gr, 17mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Acquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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