A Coin Collection Spanning 2,400 Years of History From Ancient Greece to the Bourbons
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Assembled between 1950 and the 1980s, this outstanding collection pays a splendid tribute to the great Mediterranean civilizations from Carthage to Rome via Greece. A historical retrospective in images. Carthage, c. 260 BCE. Gold trihemiastater with a horse on the reverse, head looking back, diam. 22.26 mm/0.87 in., weight 12.5 g/0.42 oz.Estimate: €10,000/€15,000 With the sale of over 500 lots of Roman, Greek and French coins dating from antiquity to the modern age, 2,400 years of history are evoked in this collection. And it is surely no coincidence that it came into being during a tragic and historic period in the
