CNG 100, Lot: 1511. Estimate $7500. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 205-190 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.41 g, 12h). Aristoboulos, magistrate. Radiate head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose with bud to right; APIΣTOBOYΛOΣ above, thunderbolt to left, P-O flanking stem. Ashton 263; HGC 6, 1422; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen 755; SNG Keckman –; Karl –. Superb EF, attractive light gray tone with golden hues around the devices. Perfectly centered and well struck.
Ex J.J. Grano Collection (Numismatica Genevensis SA VIII, 24 November 2014), lot 54; Numismatica Genevensis SA V (3 December 2008), lot 127; Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2008), no. 58a.