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Session Five - Tuesday, February 14th 10:00am PST
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HOICE
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UALITY
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ARE
K
AMIROS
AR S
TATER
,
CA
. 500-480 BC
Enlargement
1735 Islands off Caria, Rhodos. Kamiros. Silver Stater (11.80 g), ca. 500-480 BC
. Fig leaf.
Reverse:
Two incuse rectangles with variegated sur-
faces. SNG Keckman 319; SNG von Aulock 2779; Karl 376-80; Asyut 694-702. Perfectly centered and attractively toned with hints of iridescence.
Extremely Fine
.
Estimate Value ....................................................................................................................................................................... $2,000 - 2,500
From the Hanbery Collection; Purchased privately from MMAG in 1981.
The reverse involving two parallel incuse rectangles created from a single punch die was a typical and distinctive feature of early staters struck by
the cities on the island of Rhodes. Initially, the rectangles on coins of Kamiros were filled with irregular striations, as on this example, but later
issues use them to inscribe the city ethnic. The fig leaf obverse is beautiful in its simplification of the veins and the roundness of the lobes, which
may remind the modern Canadian of certain brands of heavily stylized maple leaf sandwich cookies (see
https://www.hnwilliams.com/images/D/DARE-MPL-CRM_.jpg). Alas, the die-engraver does not depict the delicious fruit that must surely have grown on the fig tree among such leaves.
Enlargement
1736 Islands off Caria, Kalymnos. Silver Didrachm (6.09 g), ca. 260/50-205 BC
. Male head right, wearing crested Attic helmet.
Reverse:
KA
YMNI
[N] below, kithara; all within dotted square border. Höghammar type 2, dies 1/2; SNG Keckman 282 (same dies); SNG Kayhan 902
(same dies); HGC 6, 1283.
Very Rare.
Fine style with light old cabinet toning.
Choice Very Fine
.
Estimate Value ....................................................................................................................................................................... $1,500 - 2,000
The Hanbery Collection; Purchased privately from V. England in 1988; Ex Hess 253 (8-9 March 1983), 237.
Enlargement
1737 Islands off Caria, Kos. Silver Tetradrachm (15.11 g), ca. 350-345 BC
. Nestoridas, magistrate. Bearded head of Herakles left, wearing lion'
s skin headdress.
Reverse:
, crab; below magistrate' s name: NE
TO
I
A
, and club; all in square dotted border within incuse square. Cf.
Pixodarus 20-1 (O5/R-; rev. die not recorded); SNG Keckman -; SNG von Aulock 2748.
Rare.
Some areas of dark tone.
Choice Very Fine
.
Estimate Value ....................................................................................................................................................................... $2,000 - 2,500
The Hanbery Collection; Purchased privately from F. Kovacs in the 1990s.