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A silver triobol of Argos showing a wolf and the letter A Coin Type: Silver triobol (or hemidrachm) of Argos in Argolis.
Mint and Date: Argos, magistrate Philokles, 90-50 BCE.
Size and Weight: 15mm x 16mm, 2.24g.
Obverse: Forepart of wolf at bay left.
Reverse: Large letter A. Below, a krater with NE monogram.
ΦI - ΛO / K - Λ / H - Σ around.
Provenance: budgies-beak (eBay), October 2010
Ref: GCV 2797 var; BCD Peloponnesos 1175; SNG Copenhagen 45; BMC Peloponnesus pg. 146, 124.
BW Ref: 001 051 164
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