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THRACO-MACEDONIAN REGION, Uncertain. Circa 520-500 BC. AR Tetrobol (11.5mm, 2.37 g). Grape bunch / Quadripartite incuse square. Artemis-Gyselen Class 2, v; SNG Copenhagen 766–7; Boston MFA 1295 = Warren 970; Jameson 1310; Pozzi 2057–60; Weber 4729 (all cataloged as Tenos). Attractive cabinet tone. Near EF. Excellent for issue. Rare.
Purchased by the consignor from Brian Kritt, 6 January 2011 (his inventory ticket included).
This tetrobol is part of a series that was traditionally placed at Cycladic Tenos, based on a stylistic argument by F. Imhoof-Blumer, who compared the grape bunch on these to later Hellenistic issues bearing that city’s ethnic. Sheedy, however, convincingly showed that these coins cannot belong at Tenos. He argued that the style of the grapes was common at a number of mints, even outside the Cyclades, but, moreover, the metrology of these coins did not fit any weight standard used in the islands (cf. Sheedy, pp. 72–4 and HGC 6, p. 178).
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