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Kyrenaika, Kyrene
Kyrenaika, Kyrene
AV Drachm, 4.26g. 12.5mm. c.331-322 B.C. Magistrate: Kydios. Horseman prancing to right; ethnic inscription behind. Rev. Silphium plant with magistrate’s name around(partially retrograde). BMC 130 and plate XIV, 22(same dies). minute edge mark at 3:00 obv.
Provenance/Pedigree:
Ex: Robert Jameson collection, Paris, 1913, no. 1354.
Published: Lucien Naville, Le Monnaies D’or De La Cyrenaique, Geneva, 1951, no. 39f and plate II.
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Very Fine $20,000.
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