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Multiple Lots. Lot of thirty bronze coins from Lokris, 4th to 2nd century BC, all with Athena helmeted r. Rev. Bunch of grapes on stalk with tendrils, legends either LOK-RWN or L and O to l. and r., or retrograde. Some with letters above Athena’s helmet and some with letters above the grapes. 465.1: Æ 2.05 g., 4¢. 465.2: Æ 2.62 g., 1¢. 465.3: Æ 2.46 g., 11¢. 465.4: Æ 1.96 g., 1¢. 465.5: Æ 1.71 g., 5¢. 465.6: Æ 1.61 g., 9¢. 465.7: Æ 1.99 g., 2¢. 465.8: Æ 1.99 g., 12¢. 465.9: Æ 2.46 g., 11¢. 465.10: Æ 1.74 g., 11¢. 465.11: Æ 1.44 g., 7¢. 465.12: Æ 1.84 g., 8¢. 465.13: Æ 2.73 g., 12¢. 465.14: Æ 2.07 g., 11¢. 465.15: Æ 1.74 g., 11¢. 465.16: Æ 2.33 g., 1¢. 465.17: Æ 2.25 g., 1¢. 465.18: Æ 1.65 g., 12¢. 465.19: Æ 1.95 g., 1¢. 465.20: Æ 2.20 g., 12¢. 465.21: Æ 1.95 g., 2¢. 465.22: Æ 2.31 g., 10¢. 465.23: Æ 2.10 g., 11¢. 465.24: Æ 2.27 g., 6¢. 465.25: Æ 2.16 g., 9¢. 465.26: Æ 1.81 g., 12¢. 465.27: Æ 2.35 g., 7¢. 465.28: Æ 3.23 g., 12¢. 465.29: Æ 2.36 g., 1¢. 465.30: Æ 2.94 g., 2¢. A large group of Athena / grapes issues especially selected to show many different obverses. The reverses also vary but it may be possible to distinguish a few hands or styles at work. Average condition is about very fine. 465.1: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up. The nearest to this early style would be lot 118.1 above and they could both be early to mid 4th century BC. Corpus group 7, 7a. 465.2: L and O to l. and r., ivy leaf to l., upwards. The thick flan and the generally compact fabric would suggest an earlier rather than later date. Corpus group 21, 12a. 465.3: As last, fabric a little more spread and from different hands. Corpus group 21, 1b. Acquired from C. J. Martin, December 1983, for £ 10. Fitzwilliam (McClean) 5456, pl. 198, 21. 465.4: L and O to l. and r., ivy leaf to r., upwards. To l. of grapes, pellet? Corpus group 19, 70a. 465.5: LOK - [RWN] l. down and r. up. The obverse of “Celtic” style. Corpus group 6c, 104a. 465.6: Large, untidy letters and die flaws on reverse. Obverse of poor style, similar to above. Acquired from Frank Sternberg, January 1984, for CHF 50. Corpus group 6c, 17a. 465.7: LOKRWN from l. down circular, legend not divided. Compact reverse style with small bunch of grapes. Corpus group 6c, 106a. 465.8: LO[K] - RWN l. down and r. up. Obverse from the same hand as 465.6 above. Large and untidy reverse letters. Corpus group 6c, 16a. 465.9: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up. “Heraldic” style reverse, an issue that is very plentiful. Corpus group 6c, 35a. 465.10: LOK - RW[N] l. down and r. up; reverse flan concave with some die flaws. Corpus group 6c, 54a. 465.11: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up. A variation of the “Heraldic” style reverse, probably a good imitation of it. The obverse small, of low relief and distinctive style. Corpus group 6c, 49a. 465.12: L and O to l. and r. In spite of the poor centring the obverse looks to be of good style. The reverse is also quite tidy but it seems as if the letters L and O have been engraved over other letters. The L seems to have been there as another L but in finer lines and the letter that was below the O is uncertain. Corpus group 23, 106a. 465.13: O and L to l. and r. Acquired from Baldwin’s, June 1969, for ten shillings. A low relief, large and not very artistic Athena’s head on the obverse with a rather nice and well laid out composition on the reverse. O and L to l and r., below the O, cnemis and below the L, ivy leaf upwards. Corpus group 20, 5a. 465.14: L and O to l. and r. The obverse has some common features with the obverse of 465.11 above but is probably not from the same hand. On the reverse, the cnemis below the O is quite clear. Corpus group 22, 1a. 465.15: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up. LAM above the head on the obverse and O? above the grapes. The writer is not at all sure that this is an O; it is, in his opinion, an extension of the vine tendrils. Corpus group 6a, 109a. 465.16: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up. The styles of both obverse and reverse seem quite neat and the O above the grapes looks more credible. Acquired from Colin Pitchfork, Sydney, December 1989, for A$ 50. Corpus group 6b, 29a. 465.17: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up, but with the N reversed. The small head on the obverse looks like a better version of 465.5 above. Above the grapes traces of what looks like an O but is probably only a vine tendril. Corpus group 6c, 59a corr. [The reversed N is not mentioned.] 465.18: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up, but with the N reversed. Small, neat obverse of decent style. Concave reverse, above, and to either side, small symbols (?): to l. a small grape cluster (?) and to r. an ivy-leaf upwards (?). Above the grapes, twirled tendrils that could be taken for letters (OPO?), but obviously they are just tendrils. Acquired from Professor H. C. Lindgren, May 1991, for $ 45. Corpus group 6b, 56b corr. [the reversed N is not mentioned]. Lindgren II, 1508 corr. (this coin) [the reversed N not mentioned in Lindgren]. 465.19: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up, above grapes, FRA. Acquired from Baldwin’s, June 1972, for £ 1. Corpus group 6b, 54a. SNG Cop 65. 465.20: LOK - [R]WN l. down and r. up; a tendril above the grapes that looks like a compressed F and small vine leaves to l. and r. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung Gorny & Mosch 152 (9 October 2006) lot 2801 (part). Corpus group 6c. 465.21: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up, L above grapes (or, possibly, a badly struck A). The obverse small and of neat style. Corpus group 6b, 7a. 465.22: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up, A above grapes. Ex Martin J. Deeran (Boston Towne Coins) list 7 (September 1996), page 2, without number, for $25. Corpus group 6b, 10a. See also Triton V (15 January 2002) 357. 465.23: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up on the reverse, traces of O (or tendril twirl?) above grapes. KA above Athena’s helmet on the obverse. Acquired from Jean-Bruno Vigne, January 1987, for FF 880. Corpus group 6a, 59a. 465.24: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up on the reverse, small vine leaf and grape cluster to l. and r. of the bunch of grapes. The obverse is of the typical style that is found on coins with the EY above the helmet. Corpus group 6a, 32a. 465.25: As above, 465.24. SNG Christomanos 693 (same reverse die) corr. [EY above on the obverse not mentioned in the SNG text but clear on photo]. Corpus group 6a. 465.26: LO - KRWN l. down and r. up on the reverse, EY above helmet on the obverse. Acquired from Frank Kovacs, March 1979, for $ 20. Corpus group 6a, 28b. Unusual division of the reverse legend and rare thus. 465.27: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up on the reverse in the so-called “Heraldic” style and clearly meant to be a larger denomination. Corpus group 6c, 64a. 465.28: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up on the reverse in the same style and again clearly meant to be a larger denomination. Corpus group 6c, 61b. 465.29: LOK - RWN l. down and r. up on the reverse, imitating (?) the above reverse style but with a very poor obverse (obviously much more difficult to copy than the reverse). Corpus: “group 6c, uncertain obv., rev.= 54”. 465.30: L to l. and a faint O to r. on rev. The obverse is a very coarse rendering of Athena and when this is considered together with the reverse style, a late 2nd century BC date is a good possibility.
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