Sale: Triton X, Lot: 279. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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AEOLIS, Gryneion. 3rd century BC. Æ 17mm (3.70 g, 4h). Head of Apollo facing slightly left, wearing laurel wreath /
[G]U[RN]HWN, mussel. SNG München 438; SNG Copenhagen 202-3; SNG von Aulock 7689. Good VF, black patina, flan crack. Rare.
Gryneion, with its famed oracle and temple of Apollo, was the cultic center of Aeolis.