Asia Minor - Aeolis - Myrina - Tetradrachma (c.... Lot 47

Asia Minor - Aeolis - Myrina - Tetradrachma (c. 155-145). Exceptional style, same obverse corner as the copy of the Gillet collection N°1279. Copy of the CGB June - July 2014 fixed-price catalogue, N°7. 16.86g - Sacks 30 (same corners) - McClean 7948 (same obverse corner) Superb - AU Grynean Apollo, said by Vergil to have told Aeneas to hurry to Italy after the fall of Troy (Aeneid, book IV, line 345), was studied in details in G. Ragone, " Il santuario di Apollo Grynios in Eolide: testimonianze antiquarie, fonti antiche, elementi per la ricerca topografica", in Studi Ellenistici, theft. 3 (1990), pp. 9-112.