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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 488. Estimate $3000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004. 
Sold For $4200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES. Derrones. Circa 480 BC. AR Dodekadrachm (39.97 gm). Male driving ox-cart right, wearing kausia and holding kentron; +E between driver and ox, wheel or open flower(?) above ox, flower between legs / Triskeles (worn to blank). Cf. AMNG III 5; Svoronos, Primitif pl. II, 6 (this coin); SNG ANS -; SNG Copenhagen -; Asyut -. VF, toned. ($3000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Stack's (3-5 December 1996), lot 38.

Svoronos believed that the +E was intended to be an XE (=Che...), probably the beginning of the name of a Derronian king.