229, Lot: 50. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MACEDON, Dikaia. Circa 450-425/0 BC. AR Hemiobol(?) (7mm, 0.28 g, 3h). Forepart of bull right / Octopus. Schönert-Geiss,
Bisanthe -; SNG ANS -. Fine, porous. Extremely rare.
The Macedonian city of Dikaia - not to be confused with the Thracian city of the same name - was an Eretrian colony located on the Thermaic gulf. For its coinage, all of which is extremely rare, Dikaia adopted the cow and octopus designs of its mother city, sometimes with the addition of an ethnic.