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Lokris. Lokri Opunti. Stater, 340’s BC. AR 11.94 g., 2'.

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Lokris. Lokri Opunti. Stater, 340’s BC. AR 11.94 g., 2'.
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Lokris. Lokri Opuntii. Stater, 340’s BC. AR 11.94 g., 2¢. Head of Demeter l., hair wreathed with three leaves of wheat, wearing drop necklace and a triple drop earring with a centrepiece resembling a bunch of grapes. Rev. Ajax advancing to r., wearing a strap diagonally from which hangs, on his left hip, a sword sheath; between his legs, AIAS. Below, an almost horizontal spear pointing l., inside his oval shield, palmette and a griffin, the shield rim decorated both on the edge with dots above and below a wavy line and on its inside with half circles. OPONTI l. up, WN r. down. Corpus group 25, 167c. Gulbenkian 494 (same dies). Ward 471 (this coin). A rare and interesting type known from only one pair of dies. Some light scratches, mostly on the reverse and the double-struck “shadow” of the obverse profile, otherwise struck on a large flan, well centred, lightly toned and about extremely fine. Acquired from Christian Blom, October 1977, for $ 2’250. Ex Sotheby’s Zurich, 4 April 1973 (Ward) 391 and from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and John Ward.