очень красивое оформление монеты Др. Греции, по моему. Такая скромная и точная эстетическая картина
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Central Greece. Euboia, Eretria.
Tetradrachm, c. 525 - 500 BC. (Silver, 17.03g., 35mm). Ε (retrograde) Bull standing to left, turning his head back to right and scratching his nose with his left hind leg; on his back, swallow standing to left / Octopus, within shallow incuse square. BCD Euboia 306 = H. A. Cahn, Monnaies Grecques Archaïques (Basel 1947), 14 (this coin, taken from a cast made for the plates of Hirsch XIII). BMC 21. De Luynes 2020. Traité II, 1, 1070 (this coin cited).
Provenance:
Nomos Fixed Price List 2008, 35.BCD Collection, Lanz 111, 25 November 2002, 306.
Collections of J. W. Garrett and the Johns Hopkins University, Bank Leu and Numismatic Fine Arts, 16 October 1984, 213.
Collection of C. S. Bement, Naville VI, 28 January 1923, 1069.
Collection of A. Rhousopoulos, J. Hirsch XIII, 15 May 1905, 1896.