CILICIA, Hierapolis-Castabala. Circa 1st Century AD. Æ (24.5mm, 7.44 g, 12h). VF.

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Lot: 334. Estimated: $ 100

Roman Provincial, Bronze

Sold For $ 130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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CILICIA, Hierapolis-Castabala. Circa 1st Century AD. Æ (24.5mm, 7.44 g, 12h). IЄPOΠOΛITΩN, turreted, veiled, and draped bust of Tyche right / TΩN ΠPOC TΩ ΠYPAMΩ, river-god Pyramos swimming right, eagle to his left. Robert, Hierapolis –; SNG BN –; RPC II –. Green patina, some roughness and smoothing. VF. Extremely rare.

From the Dr. Michael Slavin Collection.

The common variety of this type has Pyramos holding a torch in his left hand and the city ethnic on the obverse inscribed in the opposite orientation. The river-god with the eagle is known in the Greek series two hundred years earlier but this coin clearly falls into the provincial series.

Closing Date and Time: 26 April 2023 at 11:51:00 ET.

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