Details
LOT 2930
Euboia, Histiaia AR Tetrobol. 3rd-2nd century BC.
Wreathed head of the Nymph Histiaia right / IΣTIAIEΩN, nymph seated right on stern of galley; thunderbolt on prow; ΔI below. BCD Euboia -; SNG Copenhagen 533; HGC 4, 1524. Near Very Fine.(1.84gr, 15mm, 9h.).
Provenance
From a 1990s English collection.
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