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Auction: 5014 - The Coinex Sale
Lot: 279

Indo-Scythian, Azes (Azes II), square AE Unit, 6.10g., king on horseback, riding right, holding whip before, monogram in from of three-spoked wheel right, […] ba[c]iËeec meÃaËoy azoy, rev. crude maneless lion right, monogram above, cross right (c.f. Senior 138.1; M.-), about very fine, extremely rare; together with AE Units (3): king seated on cushion, rev. Hermes; Elephant right, rev. bull right; king on horseback right, rev. bull right, ´Z´ in square above (Senior107, 109.10, 121; M.822, 835, 864), about fine to very fine (4) First and third coin illustrated Estimate £ 150-200Senior:2001,p.123, lists the first coin as the issue of ´uncertain satraps´. However, part of the legend on his example was missing. The legend on this coin clearly shows that it was either an issue of Azes, or was struck in his name posthumously.

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£120