411, Lot: 184. Estimate $200. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GALATIA, Pessinos. Mid 1st century BC. Æ (25.5mm, 18.69 g, 12h). Jugate draped busts right of Attis, wearing Phrygian cap, and Kybele Agditis, wearing turreted crown / Lion seated left, right paw placed on tympanon; caps of the Dioskouroi flanking, uncertain object to right. HGC 7, 766; SNG BN 2563. Fine, dark green patina, some earthen encrustation. Very rare.

Pessinos was the capital of the Tolistobogii, a Gallic tribe that had settled in the area. The city was best known for its temple of Kybele, who was known locally as Agditis..