Details
LOT 2408
Greek Coins - Thrace - Byzantium - Poseidon AE Unit Late 3rd-2nd century B.C.
Obv: veiled head of Demeter right, wearing grain wreath. Rev: BYZAN / KAΛXAΔ. Poseidon seated right on rocks, holding aphlaston and trident. About extremely fine.(11.43 grams, 22 mm.). [No Reserve]
Provenance
From an old UK collection.
From the collection of an London antiquarian.
Literature
SNG BM Black Sea 82-3, HGC 3.2, 1428.
Footnotes
Very interesting coin, issued to commemorate the alliance signed between the cities of Byzantion and Kalchedon, located in opposite banks of the Bosphorus strait.
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