The Prospero Collection of Ancient Greek Coins. AIOLIS. Myrina (c.160 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm, 16.66g,. Head of Apollo facing to right, wearing a laurel-wreath and with his hair flowing down his neck in thick curls. Rev. MYPINAIΩN , Apollo, wearing a himation, standing to right, holding a filleted palm-branch in his left hand and a patera in his right, omphalos and an amphora at his feet, a monogram behind, all within a laurel-wreath (K.S. Sacks, ‘The Wreathed Coins of Aeolian Myrina’, ANS MN 30, 1985, issue 23; BMC 8, pl. XXVII, 5). Some lustre beneath a light tone, extremely fine. Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd., London, 6 October 1986 US$ 2,200
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