Details
LOT 2630
Mysia, Pergamon AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm. 166-67 BC.
Struck circa 88-85 BC. Basket (cista mystica), with half-open lid, from which snake coils, around, ivy wreath with fruits / Two snakes coiled around a bow case ornamented with aplustre, and containing a strung bow, between the snake heads, BA above monogram of ΠΡΥΤ, civic monogram of ΠΕΡ to left, serpent-entwined staff to right. SNG BnF 1730-1; Kleiner, Hoard 30. Very Fine.(12.39gr, 29mm, 1h.).
Provenance
From a private collection formed since the 1940s.
From UK art market.
From property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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