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Auction: 1011 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins, Commemorative Medals & Numismatic Books
Lot: 20

Cyrenaica, Cyrene (4th Century BC), AE 24mm, female head (Cyrene?) right, her hair rolled, silphium fruit behind, kypana, rev. triple silphium arranged round central point (BMC 178-179), very rare, good surfaces, about very fine, together with another bronze of Cyrene, head of Carneius, rev. silphium plant (BMC 199-201), fair/fine, and a cut section of a plated Tetradrachm of Barke, silphium plant, rev. head of Zeus Ammon right (cf. BMC pl. XXXV, 13 ff) (3) Estimate £ 150-200

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£260