From the MIT, Fielder, and Rosen Collections
CNG 87, Lot: 280. Estimate $5000. Sold for $37500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, Derrones. Circa 500-480 BC. AR Dekadrachm (29mm, 33.58 g). Two bulls, yoked and wearing fillets around neck, standing left / Quadripartite incuse square. Topalov 1; cf. HPM pl. I, 7; cf. AMNG III/2, 1; Asyut 33; cf. SNG ANS 928; Rosen 119 (this coin). VF, toned, flan flaws on reverse. Very rare.
From the MIT Collection. Ex William and Louise Fielder Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 221; Leu 77 (11-12 May 2000), lot 150; Sotheby's Zurich (27-28 October 1993) [Athena Fund Sale], lot 320; Numismatic Fine Arts XXIX (13 August 1992), lot 68; Jonathan P. Rosen Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 72, 6 October 1987), lot 380.