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Nomos 35

Zurich, 15-16 June 2025, 13:00 CEST

Zunfthaus zur Saffran, limmatquai 54, 8001 Zurich

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Best example known

Estimate: 4500 CHF
Hammer Price:  5000 CHF
Lot 400
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LESBOS. Mytilene. Circa 412-378 BC. Hekte (Electrum, 11 mm, 2.56 g, 3 h). Bearded, and with a luxuriant moustache, archaizing style, head of Dionysos to right, wearing an ivy wreath with a mitra. Rev. Head of Kalathiskos (dancer) to right, wearing her identifying kalathos; all in a linear square frame within a shallow incuse square. Bodenstedt 76. HGC 6, 1002. MAST 3.18 (this coin). Attractively toned; one of the finest examples known. Nearly extremely fine.

From a European collection, ex Tradart 5, 16 November 1995, 81 and Giessener Münzhandlung 69, 18 May 1994, 304.

Online bidding closes: 15 Jun 2025, 09:00:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 4 Jun 2026, 08:10:29 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:5000 CHF
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