Triton XVI, Lot: 159. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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TAURIC CHERSONESOS, Chersonesos. Circa AD 253-268. Æ (18mm, 3.72 g, 7h). EΛEY-ΘEPAC, laureate and draped bust of Chersonas right; lyre to right / XEPCO-ИHCOY, Athena Parthenos standing facing, head right, holding spear in right hand, bow in left; to right, forepart of stag right. Cf. Anokhin 917; Anokhin,
Khersonesa 307; SNG Pushkin 745–6; SNG Stancomb –; Sutzu II 87–8 (same obv. die, different legend breaks on rev.). Near VF, green patina.
From the Alex Shubs Collection.