THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, Uncertain. Circa 500-480 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 9.50 g). VF.

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Lot: 63. Estimated: $ 500

Greek, Silver

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THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, Uncertain. Circa 500-480 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 9.50 g). Centaur right, carrying off protesting nymph / Quadripartite incuse square with swastika or mill-sail pattern. Asyut 62–80; HPM pl. VI, 15 and 17-18; AMNG III/2, pl. XXV, 10; SNG ANS 980 (Orreskioi). Iridescent tone, minor scrapes and marks, obverse struck slightly off center with worn die. VF.

From the D.K. Collection.

The centaur-nymph motif was used by a number of Thraco-Macedonian tribes, and at least three tribes – the Orreskioi, Letaioi, and the Zaelioi – inscribed their ethnic on the obverse. The present coin, though, belongs to the quantity of unsigned issues which cannot yet be assigned to a particular tribe, although the cataloger of the ANS sylloge assumed the issue was from the Orreskioi.

Closing Date and Time: 31 May 2023 at 10:20:40 ET.

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