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Auction: 12026 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 340

Thrace, Apollonia Pontika (?) (early-mid 2nd Cent. BC), AR Tetradrachm, 16.72g, laureate head of Apollo right, rev. aono iatpoy, statue of naked Apollo standing facing, head left, on low plinth, holding a laurel-branch, on which a bird perches, a bow and two arrows, a-h across field (Topalov, Apollonia, 98 = this coin, also on the cover, otherwise unpublished), small metal flaw on cheek and scrape before head, good very fine, unique

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£9,500