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Session Five - Tuesday, February 14th 10:00am PST
Enlargement
1629 Illyro-Paeonian Region, Damastion. Silver Tetradrachm (13.48 g), ca. 390-380 BC
. Laureate head of Apollo left.
Reverse:
-
, tripod. May grp. V, 23ii (this coin); Woodward 158 (same dies).
Rare.
Lovely fine style. Toned.
Extremely Fine
.
Estimate Value .............................................................................................................................................................................$700 - 800
The Hanbery Collection.
May' s treatise on Damastion' s coinage was published in 1939, and there he notes that this coin was in Sarajevo. The location of the coin between
then and the time the former collector purchased it has unfortunately been lost.
Enlargement
1630 Illyro-Paeonian Region, Damastion. Silver Tetradrachm (13.42 g), ca. 365/0-350/45 BC
. Kephi(sophon), magistrate. Laureate head of
Apollo right.
Reverse:
-
, tripod on base; in left field, KH
[I]. May grp. VII, 64e (same dies); McClean 5086.
Rare.
Struck from a
worn obverse die. Virtually as struck. Toned.
Extremely Fine
.
Estimate Value .............................................................................................................................................................................$500 - 750
The Hanbery Collection.
Although the precise location of Damastion remains a mystery today, at least its regional boundaries were known to the Greek geographer Strabo
who mentions it in his famous
Geography
, written during the principate of Augustus. He says that there was an alliance of two Illyro-Paeonian
tribes, the Dyestae and Enchelii, who had established themselves around the silver mines of Damastion (VII, 7. 326). It was these tribes, then,
who were responsible for this coinage, and the only two magistrate' s mentioned on the coins of Damastion before it was subsumed by the grow-
ing economic dominance of the Macedonian Kingdom of Philip II and Alexander III were Herakleidas and, as here, Kephisophon. They did so only
at the very end of the period before the mint ceased to exist.
Enlargement
1631 Thessaly, Larissa. Silver Drachm (5.83 g), early-mid 4th century BC
. Youth, with petasos tied at neck, wrestling bull right.
Reverse:
-
, bridled horse galloping right within incuse square. BCD Thessaly II 372.1 (same obv. die). Fully lustrous, and a superior strike to the BCD
specimen. A beautiful example!
Mint State
.
Estimate Value ....................................................................................................................................................................... $2,000 - 2,500
From the Herbert & Aphrodite Rubin Collection; Purchased privately from E. Waddell in the 1990s.