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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
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108
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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
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Estimate €800
Voluntary lot
Description
ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
Ionian Islands, Corfu (Corfu / Korkyra). Stater or didrachm ND (525–500 BC), Corfu (Corfu / Korkyra).
Obverse: Cow on the left, head turned back and suckling a calf on the right.
Reverse: Two parallel hollow rectangles, with star motifs centred on a square and a diamond.
HGC 6, 31 – Fried, *The Autonomous Silver Coinage of Korkyra from the Earliest Strikings through 229 B.C.* (1982), Group I; Silver – 10.69 g – 18 mm – 3 h
Acquired from CB [Claude Burgan] in 1993.
Struck on an archaic metal ingot, with an off-centre strike on the reverse. With a grey patina. Rare. Very Good to Very Good-Plus.
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