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Lokris. Lokri Opunti. Lot of two coins.

Currency:CHF Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - World Start Price:200.00 CHF Estimated At:250.00 - 0.00 CHF
Lokris. Lokri Opunti. Lot of two coins.
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Lokris. Lokri Opuntii. Lot of two coins. 26.1: Obol, second quarter of the 4th century BC. AR 0.74 g. Amphora, two bunches of grapes hang from the mouth of the vase, one over each handle, vine tendrils and small grape bunches across body of vase, O P l. down, O N r. up. Rev. Stylized star of 16 rays, 8 of the rays slightly overlapping the other 8; in the centre, pellet with linear circle around it, the whole in a dotted circle. Corpus group 5, 33h. SNG Fitzwilliam 2808. Babelon, Traité II, 3, p. 371, 436 bis, pl. CCVII, 9. 26.2: Modern cast forgery of the same type, copying very similar but not the same dies. AR 0.99 g. The genuine coin lightly toned and unusually clear and well preserved for this type that is almost never found with the amphora decoration fully showing. Well centred and struck, an attractive good very fine. The forgery with a nice “old collection” toning, very deceptive without comparative material at hand and very fine. 26.2: ex Sotheby’s London 12 May 1983, lot 182 (part).