KYRENAIKA. Kyrene (c.400 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm, 13.16g,. Head of Zeus Ammon, facing three-quarters to right, wearing a laurel-wreath and a ram’s horn, his beard in long curls. Rev. K-[Y] / P-[A] / N-[A] , silphium plant (BMC p. xlix, 77b, pl. IX, 10 (this coin) = NC 1915, p. 99, 48; Jameson 2528 = Niggeler I, 532 (these dies)). A spectacular coin of immense power and majesty, possessing a style that is unparalleled in ancient Greek coinage, cabinet tone, light die-flaw on obverse, good very fine, of the greatest rarity, apparently only the second known example. This coin published in the British Museum Catalogue, p. xlix, 77b, illustrated on pl. IX, 10. Ex W. Giesecke Collection Ex Bank Leu AG, Auction 28, Zurich, 5 & 6 May 1981, lot 226 Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd., London, 22 November 1983 It is assumed that this important and exceedingly rare coin was struck under the magistrate NIKIOΣ, whose name appears on other contemporary obverse dies that share the same reverse die as the above example. The head of Zeus Ammon is rendered with immense power, the eyes piercing and forceful in purpose. There is a distinct lack of classical idealism in the rendering of the head and it is therefore plausible that the artist responsible for this imagery has taken it from real life. The result is surely one of the most dramatic of any facing head to appear on an ancient Greek coin.
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