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                 |  | Lot 31. Olympia AE 2 Assaria, ex BCD
    eAuction #56, Lot 31. Estimate: CHF 150.00
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              (Sunday, June 18th, 19:10:20 CEST) Current time: Friday, October 31st, 14:15:46 CET
 
  
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            | Price realised: | CHF 180.00 (4 bids) Approx. EUR 193.88 / USD 224.33 / GBP 170.72
 
  
 
              
                Bid history  
                  
                    | Amount | Bidder | Date |  
                                            | CHF 180.00 | Bidder 2 * | 2017-06-12, 13:11:31 |  
                                            | CHF 170.00 | Bidder 1 * | 2017-06-16, 12:30:08 |  
                                            | CHF 150.00 | Bidder 1 * | 2017-06-16, 12:29:53 |  
                                            | CHF 130.00 | Bidder 1 * | 2017-06-16, 12:29:45 |   * User names of other bidders are replaced by Bidder 1, 2, and so on. |  
            | High bidder: | Bidder 2 |  |  
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 Olympia, Elis. AE 2 Assaria (25 mm, 10.32 g), early 30s BC (?).
 Obv. Head of Hera right, wearing stephane.
 Rev. Eagle standing right on thunderbolt with closed wings, F- A in fields; to right, monogram of MI.
 Wroth p. 335, 3-4.
 
 Rare. Good very fine.
 
 From the BCD collection; ex Kress 178 (1980), 559 (sold for 1000 DM + fees) and ex Leu 90 (2004), 311.
 
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 date of this issue is controversial. Warren dates it to the 30s BC 
based upon size and weight and connects it to Marc Antony and Cleopatra.
 He sees the eagle on a thunderbolt, which is otherwise unknown at Olympia, as being a reference to the standard Ptolemaic reverse type.
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