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DM07878
Carian Islands, Kos, Silver Tetradrachm, Theodotos, ex Vinchon and Prospero
Carian Islands, Kos (c. 350-345 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm. Magistrate Theodotos. Head of Herakles facing left, wearing a lion's skin headdress, rev. KΩION, crab, a club and the magistrate's name ΘEOΔOTOΣ below; all within a dotted square border within a shallow incuse square, 15.24g., 5h (Pixodarus Hoard, Cos (A. Meadows), Coin Hoards IX, phase 3, 9b (o2/r7) (this coin); SNG von Aulock 2747; Boston 2019). Good style, lightly toned, about extremely fine.
Provenance: Ex Hess - Leu, Auction 45, Lucerne, 12 & 13 May 1970, lot 291 Ex J. Vinchon, Monte-Carlo, 13-15 November 1986, lot 219 Ex Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, lot 555
This coin was published in Coin Hoards IX (Pixodarus Hoard, Cos), p. 230, 9b
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