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LOT 0080
Greek Silver Phalera with Dionysus
3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.
1 1/2 in. (5.28 grams, 41 mm).
Discoid in plan with returned rim, guilloche to the outer field and egg-and-dart to the dome; central bust of Dionysus modelled in high-relief with garland in his hair.
Provenance
Private collection, assembled in the 1950s-1970s, thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. similar phalera with gorgoneion in the British Museum under accession no.1854,0717.23.
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