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Obolos Webauction 13  –  2 July 2019

Nomos, Obolos Webauction 13

The Vineneyard Collection Part II, and Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic and e...

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SICILY. Hybla Megala. Roman rule, after 210 BC. Trias (?) (Bronze, 20 mm, 7.63 g, 12 h). Veiled female head to right, wearing kalathos; to left, bee. Rev. ΥBΛAΣ [MEΓAΛAΣ] Dionysos standing left, holding long scepter in his left hand and thymiaterion in his right; at feet, panther. CNS III 1. HGC 497. SNG ANS 195ff. Glossy dark green surfaces, and with an unusual depiction of Dionysos holding a thymiaterion. Very fine.

From the Vineyard Collection, bought during the NYINC in December 1999.

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