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Ancient Greek Coinage
Enlargement
1854
Ionia, Phokaia. Electrum Hekte (2.56 g), ca. 625-522 BC
. Head of boar left; below, small seal left.
Reverse:
Quadripartite incuse
square. Bodenstedt 14. Boldly struck and lightly toned.
NGC grade Ch AU; Strike: 4/5, Surface: 5/5.
Estimated Value ............................................................................................................................................................... $1,200 - 1,500
Enlargement
1855 Ionia, Phokaia. Silver Trihemiobol(?) (0.78 g), ca. 521-478 BC
. Head of griffin left.
Reverse:
Rough quadripartite incuse square. Cf. SNG
Kayhan 514-6 (hemidrachm); SNG von Aulock 2118. Toned.
Extremely Fine
.
Estimated Value .......................................................................................................................................................................... $250 - 350
Ex Money Museum, Zurich (CNG E342, 14 January 2015), 286; Numismatica Ars Classica K (30 March 2000), 1317
.
Enlargement
1856
Ionia, Phokaia. Electrum Hekte (2.48 g), ca. 387-326 BC
. Wreathed head of Demeter left, hair in sakkos; below, small seal left.
Reverse:
Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt 102 (dies c/
β
); SNG von Aulock -; BMFA 1920.
Extremely Fine
.
Estimated Value ............................................................................................................................................................... $1,400 - 1,600
V
ERY
I
MPRESSIVE
S
AMOS
S
ILVER
T
ETRADRACHM
Enlargement
1857
Islands off Ionia, Samos. Silver Tetradrachm (14.64 g), ca. 408/4-380/66 BC
.
Hegemon(eos?), magistrate.
Facing lion' s scalp.
Reverse:
ΣΑ
, forepart of bull right; to left, laurel branch; above, magistrate' s name:
ΗΓΗΜΩΝ
; all within shallow incuse square. Barron class
X, -; HGC 6, 1218. Underlying luster present, lightly toned.
Rare
The impressive lion' s scalp well struck in high relief.
Extremely Fine/ Very
Fine
.
The magistrate is recorded by neither Barron nor Hoover. Hoover erroneously lists a magistrate by the name of
ΗΓΗΜΩΝΕΟΣ
, but this is
actually the patronymic of
ΑΛΚΜΕΩΝ
(Barron class X, 152) and should not have been recorded as a separate magistrate. It is, of course,
entirely possible that the magistrate Hegemon(eos?) seen here is the father of the (later) magistrate Alkmeon.
Estimated Value ............................................................................................................................................................... $2,000 - 2,500