Hexadrachm Biatec type 75 BC - 1 BC

Reverse

Male rider riding galloping hippogriff to right, holding ivy stem over shoulder in right hand; BIATEC in exergue.

Lettering: BIATEC

Comment

Paulsen 745
Paulsen pl. 31, 748
Göbl, Hexadrachmen pl. 3 II/2 (2)
Southwestern Slovakia

Recorded Sales:
• Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XVIII, 29 Sep 2019, lot 33. Sold for 3,000 GBP in VF grade.
• Auktionhaus Numismatica (Vienna), Auction 13, 9 November 1976, lot 8.

Examples of this type:

• Example #1 (17.15g, 28mm, 9h; Very Fine):

© Image courtesy of Roma Numismatics Limited
◦ Ex-Hermann Lanz Collection; published in Kostial #68;
◦ Exhibited by the Staatlichen Münzsammlung München at the 1997 International Numismatic Congress in Berlin; at the Berliner Bank also in 1997; also exhibited at the Luitpoldblock Palmengarten, Munich in 2003 (exhibition #23[reverse]);
◦ Auctioned by Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XVIII, 29 September 2019, lot 33. Sold for 3,000 GBP.
◦ Auctioned by Auktionhaus Numismatica (Vienna), Auction 13, 9 November 1976, lot 8.

• Example #2 (16.94g, 24mm, 5h; Near Very Fine):

© Image courtesy of Roma Numismatics Limited
◦ Ex-Hermann Lanz Collection; published in Kostial #65;
◦ Auctioned by Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XVII, 28 March 2019, lot 32. Sold for 1,700 GBP.

• Example #3 (17.06g, 27mm, 8h; Near Very Fine):

© Image courtesy of Roma Numismatics Limited
◦ Ex-Hermann Lanz Collection; published in Kostial #69;
◦ Auctioned by Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XVII, 28 March 2019, lot 34. Sold for 4,600 GBP.

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