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Phokis. Lot of eighteen bronze coins.

Currency:CHF Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - World Start Price:240.00 CHF Estimated At:300.00 - 0.00 CHF
Phokis. Lot of eighteen bronze coins.
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Multiple Lots. Lot of eighteen bronze coins of the Phokian League, mostly struck at Elateia, 4th and 3rd century BC. All with bull’s head facing in various styles and sizes. Rev. FW in wreath tying above or below for the first three and the last five coins, head of Apollo r. for the other ten coins. 472.1: Æ 1.97 g., 7¢. 472.2: Æ 2.87 g., 11¢. 472.3: Æ 2.81 g., 7¢. 472.4: Æ 3.87 g., 12¢. 472.5: Æ 6.23 g., 8¢. 472.6: Æ 3.63 g., 4¢. 472.7: Æ 5.11 g., 12¢. 472.8: Æ 4.12 g., 12¢. 472.9: Æ 4.84 g., 7¢. 472.10: Æ 4.88 g., 9¢. 472.11: Æ 4.80 g., 12¢. 472.12: Æ 5.11 g., 1¢. 472.13: Æ 5.10 g., 12¢. 472.14: Æ 2.00 g., 4¢. 472.15: Æ 2.13 g., 11¢. 472.16: Æ 3.06 g., 6¢. 472.17: Æ 2.64 g., 8¢. 472.18: Æ 3.49 g., 12¢. A selection of Phokian / Elateian bronzes with facing bull’s head obverses adding to the varieties offered in lot 469 above. Some are softly struck or marginally off-centre, otherwise they average very fine. 472.1: As lot 344.2 above. Acquired from Baldwin’s, May 1976, for £ 2.50 472.2: Similar to lot 417.6 above. 472.3: As lot 350.1 above. 472.4: Same reverse die as lot 420.3 above. 472.5: As lot 412 above. SNG Cop 133. 472.6: As lot 412 above. SNG Cop 133. 472.7: As lot 414.2 above. 472.8: As lot 415.4 above, die flaw on obverse. BMC 109, pl. III, 25. 472.9: Same dies as lot 417.2 above. 472.10: As lot 416.1 above. 472.11: Same dies as lot 418.1 above and SNG Cop 136. 472.12: Same reverse die as lot 421.4 above. 472.13: Same reverse die as lot 421.5 above. 472.14: As lot 417.7 above. 472.15: The obverse as lot 417.8 and the reverse as lot 417.7 above. 472.16: As 417.8 above. 472.17: As 417.8 above. 472.18: The obverse style deteriorates even more than the two preceding coins and becomes a purely schematic representation of the subject, almost entering the realm of modern art as we see it today. A selection of Phokian / Elateian bukranion obverse issues starting from the years soon after the end of the Third Sacred War and continuing with Elateian coins issued well into the third century BC. It is quite possible though that lot 472.1 was struck before the end of the war (see lot 344 above).