The famous Apollo Sauroktonos
Lot 651
MOESIA INFERIOR. Nicopolis ad Istrum. Macrinus, 217-218. Pentassarion (Bronze, 27 mm, 12.64 g, 1 h), Marcus Claudius Agrippa, legatus consularis. AY K ΟΠΠΕΛ CEYH MAKPINOC Laureate head of Macrinus to right. Rev. YΠ AΓPIΠΠA NIKOΠΟΛITΩN ΠPOC IC-TP-Ω Apollo Sauroktonos standing front, head to right, leaning left on tree on which climbs lizard. Hristova/Jekov 8.23.7.2. Varbanov 3348. Very fine.

From an old Swiss collection, privately purchased from F. Sternberg in the 1990s (with original ticket).

The reverse of this coin shows the famous Apollo Sauroktonos, a bronze statue made by the celebrated sculptor Praxiteles (circa 390-320 BC), of which a copy probably stood in the city of Nicopolis.
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50 CHF
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80 CHF
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Closing time: 07-Sep-19, 20:25:30 CEST
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