324, Lot: 160. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ASIA MINOR, Uncertain mint. 5th century BC. AR Tetartemorion (6mm, 0.14 g). Horse’s head left / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Tzamalis 92 (cruder style; Thraco-Macedonian mint); Klein –; Traité –; cf. SNG Kayhan 745 (rough incuse; mint in Ionia or Caria); cf. CNG eAuction 288, lot 257. Good VF, find patina, a little granular.
While such coins are generally assigned to an uncertain Thraco-Macedonian mint, the style of the current coin is more refined than any of the horse types in Tzamalis. “Horse/incuse” types were almost certainly minted at multiple locations, and a mint in (western?) Asia Minor would seem logical based on provenances.