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Research Coins: Electronic Auction

 
281, Lot: 92. Estimate $100.
Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS, Phanagoreia. Circa 140-108 BC. Æ (14mm, 2.37 g, 1h). Wreathed head of satyr right / Bow and kerykeion. MacDonald 157 note corr.; HGC 7, -. VF, green patina, some small encrustations.


MacDonald comments that “[o]n some specimens the arrow nock and fletching are so large that the arrow resembles a caduceus [kerykeion].” Certainly, on some examples, this is the case (e.g. CNG Electronic Auction 107, lot 32), but on those examples the arrow tip is clearly angled to represent a point. On the present coin, the bottom of the kerykeion is clearly a straight line, resembling a base, rather than an arrow tip. Whether this was a mistake of the engraver is uncertain, but it is clear that the device here is a kerykeion, not an arrow.