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Phokis. Lot of two bronze coins.

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Phokis. Lot of two bronze coins.
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Phokis. Lot of two bronze coins, late 4th or early 3rd centuries BC. 357.1: Æ 2.12 g., 6¢. 357.2: Æ 1.97 g., 6¢. Head or head and neck of Athena helmeted ¾ r. Rev. FW in wreath without berries tying below. For the date of the first coin (and, based on the similarity of style, also of the second) see: Kroll, “A Chronology of Early Athenian Bronze Coinage ca. 350 - 250” in Greek Numismatics and Archaeology, Essays in Honor of Margaret Thompson (1979), p. 153 and pl. 17, U73. Kroll dates this type (based on the Agora deposit A18: 8 [IGCH 157]) to “early third century BC, in any case well after the Third Sacred War”. Brown patinas, the second slightly porous, about very fine / very fine.