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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Featured Collections| > |Sold Collections| > |William Turner Collection| > WT46629
Megalopolis, Arkadian League, 320 - 275 B.C.
|William| |Turner| |Collection|, |Megalopolis,| |Arkadian| |League,| |320| |-| |275| |B.C.|, Ex William Turner Collection. William Turner (1792 - 1867), British diplomat of the early 19th century, authored his interesting and opinionated Journal of a Tour in Levante (1820) describing his adventures in the area. This specimen was obtained by Turner in the course of his travels (1812 - 1817).

III:276-7 "We walked to a bath to look at the famous vase which has excited so much admiration, it is of fine marble and good preservation..[originally it was] full of large pieces of money; on being questioned they said one of these coins was yet in possession of a Turk in the neighbourhood, but on my asking if I could see him and it, of course he was now at a distance.."
WT46629. Bronze AE 17, SNG Cop 201 ff., G/F, Arkadia, Megalopolis mint, weight 1.917g, maximum diameter 16.7mm, obverse youthful head of Pan right; reverse APK monogram, syrinx below; SOLD












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