Gemini III, January 9th, 2007
Lot # 181Estimate: US$2000

Magnesia on the Meander, Themistocles. Ca. 465–460/50 BC. 
Silver tetartemorion (0.20 gm). Bearded male head right 
(Themistocles?), wearing wreath or taenia / Eagle flying left, AP 
monogram(?) below, all in incuse square with linear border. Cahn and 
Mannsperger, NC 1991, p. 199, pl. 44, 1–2 = SNG Tubingen 2922 (same 
dies). Extremely rare: possibly only the second known specimen, and 
surely the finest. Very fine/ extremely fine. 


Cahn and Mannsperger, describing the poorly 
preserved specimen in Tubingen, thought that the head on 
the obverse might be helmeted. This better example seems 
to depict a wreathed head (cf. NC 1988, pl. 2, 8 and A), with 
his hair in krobylos. The style is later and finer than the 
style of the fractions published in an earlier article by Cahn 
and Gerin in NC 1988. 

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  ... Lot 181 sold for high bid of $2000 [ $2300, or approx 1777.9 EUR, 1173 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 


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