Details
LOT 2905
Moesia, Istros AR Drachm. Circa 280-255 BC.
Two young male heads facing, right head inverted / Sea-eagle to left, clutching dolphin in its talons; IΣTPI[H] above, ΦΥ below. SNG Stancomb 148; Dima Subgroup VI, pl. 19, 1-7; AMNG I.1, 425; HGC 3.2, 1803. Good Very Fine.(5.05gr, 17mm.).
Provenance
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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