445, Lot: 847. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, Orreskioi. Circa 480/75-465 BC. Electrotype “Oktadrachm” (30mm, 20.92 g). Unsigned British Museum electrotype by Robert Ready or his sons. Herdsman, wearing petasos and holding two spears, guiding two bulls right over dotted ground line; ORR-H(retrograde Σ)-KI-OH around / Quadripartite incuse square. Head,
Guide, Period I.B., –; for prototype: BMC p. 146, 2. As made.
From the Johnson Family Collection, purchased from William Koonce, 2 May 1969.