| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29 | Auction date: 24 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 1192 Price realized: 260 CHF (Approx. 295 USD / 273 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: KYRENAICA. Kyrene. Circa 375-305 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 17 mm, 1.95 g, 10 h), Attic standard, uncertain magistrate. Head of Karneios to left, with a ram's horn over his ear; behind, magistate's name (unreadable). Rev. [K-Y]/P-A Silphion plant with fruits. BMC -, cf. p. lx. 165e = SNG Copenhagen 1206 (drachm). BMFA -. Apparently unpublished as a hemidrachm. Somewhat porous, otherwise, very fine. From a Swiss collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29 | Auction date: 24 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 1191 Price realized: 95 CHF (Approx. 108 USD / 100 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: KYRENAICA. Kyrene. Circa 375-305 BC. Drachm (Silver, 14 mm, 2.32 g, 2 h), Asiatic standard, uncertain magistrate. Head of Karneios to left, with a ram's horn over his ear; behind, magistate's name (unreadable). Rev. Silphion plant with fruits. Cf. BMC pl. XVI, 9-13, BMFA 1339 and SNG Copenhagen 1206-1207 (for type). Darkly toned and very porous, otherwise, very fine. From a Swiss collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29 | Auction date: 24 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 1175 Price realized: 420 CHF (Approx. 477 USD / 441 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: KYRENAICA. Kyrene. Circa 525-480 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 10 mm, 1.95 g, 5 h), Attic standard. Silphion fruit. Rev. Incuse square divided by a vertical and two horizontal lines; additonal lines in compartments. BMC p. XXI, 6a var. (differing weight standard). BMFA -. SNG Copenhagen -. Extremely rare. Slightly rough, otherwise, very fine. From a Swiss collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 75 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 1853 Price realized: 160 CHF (Approx. 182 USD / 169 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: KYRENAICA. Kyrene. Circa 375-305 BC. Drachm (Silver, 14 mm, 3.21 g, 12 h), Asiatic standard. Head of Karneios to left, with a ram's horn over his ear; behind, magistate's name (unreadable). Rev. Silphium plant with fruits. BMC 166-8. SNG Copenhagen 1206-7. Some deposits and with minor areas of horn silver, otherwise, about very fine. From a Swiss collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29 | Auction date: 24 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 1194 Price realized: 950 CHF (Approx. 1,078 USD / 996 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: KYRENAICA. Kyrene. Circa 375-305 BC. Trihemiobol (Silver, 10 mm, 0.94 g, 11 h), Asiatic standard. Triple silphion plant with fruits. Rev. Bearded head of Zeus Ammon to right, with ram's horn over his ear. BMC 101-102. BMFA -. SNG Copenhagen -. Very rare and unusually attractive. The obverse struck somewhat off center, otherwise, very fine. From a Swiss collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 75 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 15 | Auction date: 1 June 2024 |
| Lot number: 161 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot  | |
| Lot description: KYRENAICA. Kyrene. Circa 525-480 BC. Didrachm (Silver, 17 mm, 8.48 g, 6 h), Attic standard. Silphion plant with two pairs of leaves and fruits; in fields to left and right, single fruits. Rev. Facing gorgoneion with protruding tongue within pelleted square within incuse square. BMC p. XXV, 17d and pl. IV, 2. BMFA -. SNG Copenhagen -. The New York Sale XXXII (2014), 189 (same dies). Extremely rare. A beautifully toned piece of charming archaic style. Light marks, otherwise, very fine. From a Swiss collection, formed before 2005. The reverse motif of this extremely rare didrachm from Kyrene appears to draw from Athenian prototypes, where the Gorgon first appeared around 515-510 BC on tetradrachms, didrachms, and smaller denominations of the 'Wappenmünzen' series. Adopting from Athens, Kyrene also embraced the Attic weight standard, later supplemented and replaced by the so-called 'Asiatic' standard. This standard likely originated from a one-fifth denomination of the Attic tetradrachm, which then became a light drachm (see lot 165 below), resulting in an 'Asiatic' tetradrachm weighing around 13.2 grams. Estimate: 3500 CHF |  |
