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Coin ID #6805

(BC 470-440) Uncertain Dynast - 1/8 Stater?

ca 480-450 BC. AR 1/8 Stater? (1.17g). Boar's head left / Protome of a man-headed bull facing left within incuse square. EF.

The reverse image is reminiscent of the coins of the Lycian dynast Uvug. The weight standard is hard to define, since the weights are somewhat erratic (along with the von Aulock coin, cf. Peus 372, 2002, lot 361). It might be a 1/6th stater on the light stater (c. 8.0-8.6 g), but actually this standard is known from 460 BC onwards only; cf. O. Morkholm and G. Neumann, Die lykischen Munzlegenden (Gottingen 1978), p. 5 f.

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Filename:image00224.jpg
City/Mint name:Dynasts of Lykia
Keywords:silver / archaic
References:???
Valuation:Gemini Auc. VI (1/2010), lot 224 ($1,600 + comm)
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Date added:Jan 23, 2010
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