Sale: Nomos 9, Lot: 79. Estimate CHF3000. Closing Date: Monday, 20 October 2014. Sold For CHF2900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MACEDON, Potidaia. c. 500-480 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 23mm, 17.13 g). Poseidon Hippios, nude, riding horse walking to right, holding trident with his right hand and the reins with his left; beneath horse, traces of a star.
Rev. Incuse square divided diagonally. Asyut -. HPM -. SNG ANS 688-9 var. Very rare. Of unusually fine style for these crude issues. Some minor marks and scrapes,
otherwise, nearly extremely fine.
Ex Nomos 6, 8 May 2012, 47 and from an English collection.