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Lot
# 211 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$600
/ Price Realized: US$500
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Ionia, Teos. Stater
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Ionia, Teos. c. 500 BC. Stater, 11.75gg. Obv: Griffin seated right, jaws open, tongue protruding, left foreleg raised, grape cluster and leaf at lower right. Rx: Quadripartite incuse square. Balcer, SNR 47 (1968), Group VII (obv. die 15), Pl. XII. SNG Aulock 2254. Rare: only ten specimens known to Balcer from this obverse die. Tip of griffin's beak off flan. Sharply struck. Good EF.
Ex Philip T. Ashton Collection. Purchased from Grunow, Berlin, July 2002.
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