Baldwin's Auctions Ltd | Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals | M&M Numismatics Ltd > The New York Sale XXV | Auction date: 5 January 2011 |
Lot number: 135 | |
Lot description: ANCIENT GREEK COINS UNDER ROMAN RULE. IONIA. ERYTHRAE. Autonomous. Homonoia with CHIOS. Bronze, struck under Philip I (244-249). AE 3.39 g. ’ΡΥΘΡΑΙΩΝ Sphinx seated l., holding amphora with her raised r. paw. Rev. ΟΜΟΝΟΙ-Α ΧΙΩΝ ’ΡΥ/ΘΡΑΙ-ΩΝ Heracles, nude, advancing r., the lion's skin wrapped around his extended l. arm, holding club in his raised r. hand. SNG Cop. 778. SNG von Aulock 1975 (these dies). P. R. Franke - M. K. Nollé, Die Homonoia-Münzen Kleinasiens und der thrakischen Randgebiete (1997), 61, 582 (these dies). Scarce. Green patina. Obv. Very fine. Rev. Good fine Estimate: $ 120 |