Kyrene, Kyrenaika

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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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Kyrenaika, Kyrene, A. Pupius Rufus, c.34-31 B.C.

AE 27, 10.28g. Head of Zeus Ammon to right. Rev. Sella castrensis(folding military camp seat) flanked by fasces. RPC 920.26(this coin). BMC 117,27. Pierre Strauss, Collection of Maurice Laffaille, Bale, 1990, #630(this coin). SNG COP 1314. Brown patina.

Provenance/Pedigree:
Ex: Laffaille collection, Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, Auction 76, 1991, lot 630.
Ex: Righetti collection, Auctiones, Basel, Auction 29, 2003, lot 389.

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Very Fine $1,700.

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