Ex Hunt and Gillet Collections
Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 503. Estimate $3000. Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008. Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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AITOLIA, Aitolian League. Circa 250-225 BC. AR Stater (10.17 g, 10h). Korkyrean standard. Laureate head of Apollo right; small ΦI below / Aitolos standing left, kausia hung around neck and sword slung at waist, holding spear, right foot set on rock, leaning on raised right knee; NI to left. Tsangari 782; BCD Akarnania 445; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -. EF, toned, minor die wear on obverse, a few light marks. Rare.
Ex Coin Galleries (10 April 1991), lot 105; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s, 21 June 1990), lot 409; Charles Gillet Collection (photofile), no. 892.