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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
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Estimate €500
Voluntary lot
Description
ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
Troad, Island of Tenedos. Drachma ND (450–387 BC), Tenedos.
Obverse. Janus-like head: a woman with a headband on the left and a bearded man wearing a laurel wreath on the right.
Reverse. TENE / ΔΙ / ΟΝ. Double-headed axe, with the handle flanked by a bunch of grapes and a tripod.
HGC 6, 386 – SNG Cop.516; Silver – 3.66 g – 15.5 mm – 12 h
From the collection of Mr Stanislas J. de V., Serrure auction, 18 March 1910, lot 84 (Pl. III no. 84), then acquired from the Banque Populaire du Nord in 1987.
With an aged patina and even wear from circulation. Very Good to Superb condition.
Featuring the double-headed axe of the city’s founding king, Ténés, a symbol of his unyielding lawmaking
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