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Lot 3283 - ancient greek - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80Macedonian Kingdom. Alexander III 'the Great'. Silver Tetradrachm (16.0 g), 336-323 BC. Perge, civic year 19 (203/2 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headress. Reverse AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; in left field, IΘ. Price 2931; Colin emission 19 (dies not recorded). We note some flatness of strike around the obverse rim. Underlying luster, lightly toned. Extremely Fine. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80ancient greek |
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Lot 3344 - ancient greek - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80Islands off Caria, Rhodes. Silver Drachm (2.6 g), ca. 88-85 BC. Maes, magistrate. Radiate head of Helios right. Reverse: P-O, rose with bud to left; in right field, headdress of Isis; above, magistrate's name: MAHΣ; all within incuse square. Jenkins grp. E, 246; SNG Copenhagen 836; HGC 6, 1461. Choice Very Fine. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80ancient greek |
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Lot 3267 - ancient greek - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80Macedonian Kingdom. Alexander III the Great. Silver Tetradrachm (17.13 g), 336-323 BC. Paphos, ca. 322/1 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress; in tiny letters amongst the tufts of hair along the front rim of the lion's skin; NIKOKΛEOYΣ. Reverse BAΣIΛEΩ[Σ] to left of scepter, AΛEΞANΔPO[Y] in right field, Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; in left field, ΠAΦ monogram; below throne, grain ear. Price 3122; May 12-4. Carefully extended dies, boldly struck with incredible detail including the name of the Paphos king. Nearly Mint State. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80ancient greek |
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Lot 3278 - ancient greek - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80Macedonian Kingdom. Alexander III the Great. Silver Tetradrachm (17.21 g), 336-323 BC. Uncertain mint in Cilicia, ca. 323-317 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headress. Reverse BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; in left field, wreath; below throne, ΔI. Price 2949 (Side?). Boldly stuck and lustrous. NGC grade Extremely Fine; Strike: 5/5, Surface : 2/5. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80ancient greek |
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Lot 3323 - ancient greek - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80Paphlagonia, Sinope. Silver drachm (6.0 g), ca. 330-300 BC. Ikesi…, magistrate. Head of nymph left, hair held hair in sakkos, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; before, aplustre. Reverse ΣINΩ, sea-eagle on dolphin left; above tail feathers, magistate's name: IKE[ΣI]. SNG BM -; SNG Stancomb -; RG 31. Lustrous and superb. Mint State. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80ancient greek |
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Lot 3234 - ancient greek - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80Celtic, Eastern Europe. Imitating Thasos. Silver Tetradrachm (16.6 g), 1st century BC. Wreathed head of young Dionysos right. Reverse Devolved legend, Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club, arm and draped lion's skin have merged. Lukanc grp. IV, esp. 1190 and 1201; OTA class II; Kostial 971-4; CCCBM 223-5, S210-1. Extremely Fine. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80ancient greek |
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Lot 3303 - ancient greek - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80Thessaly, Thessalian League. Silver Stater (6.34 g), late 2nd-mid 1st century BC. Philok(rates) and Epikra(tides), magistrates. Laureate head of Zeus. Reverse: ΘEΣΣA-ΛΩN, Athena Itonia advancing right, wielding spear and holding forth shield; above spear and in exergue, magistrates' names: ΦI-ΛOK and EΠIKPA; in right field, ΠA monogram. BCD Thessaly II 871.1 (same obv. die); SNG Berry 556 (same obv. die). Superb, Nearly Mint State. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80ancient greek |
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Lot 3273 - ancient greek - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80Macedonian Kingdom. Alexander III the Great. Silver Tetradrachm (17.26 g), 336-323 BC. Amphipolis, 316-314. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headress. Reverse: [AΛ]EΞANΔPOY, Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; in left field, aplustre; below throne, Π-pellet monogram. Price 129; Thompson issue L3. Toned. Extremely Fine. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80ancient greek |
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Lot 3284 - ancient greek - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80Macedonian Kingdom. Alexander III the Great. Silver drachm (4.18 g), 336-323 BC. Lampsakos, 310-301 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headress. Reverse AΛEΞANΔP[OY], Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; in left field, forepart of pegasos left; below throne, AΛ. Price 1394; ADM II series XVIII, 477-83. Nicely toned. Extremely Fine. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80ancient greek |
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Lot 3350 - ancient greek - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80Armenia, Artaxiad Kingdom. Tigranes II the Great. Silver Tetradrachm (15.8 g), 95-56 BC. Antioch on the Orontes. Diademed and draped bust of Tigranes II right, wearing tiara decorated with star between two eagles. Reverse BAΣIΛEΩ-Σ / TIΓPANOY, Tyche seated right on rock, holding laurel branch; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; inner right field by leg, small Θ; on rock below, HΔ monogram; all within wreath. SCADA grp. 2, dies A31/P88; Bedoukian 19; Nercessian 31. Quite rare in this state of preservation. Extremely Fine. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #80ancient greek |