CNG 85, Lot: 606. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.97 g, 6h). ΛYTOKP KΛIΣ NEP TRΛIΛ NOΣ ΣEB ΓEPM, laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / ΔHMAPX EΞ YΠΛT Γ, Tyche seated right on rocks, holding palm; at feet, river-god Cydnus swimming right; T/A P to right. Prieur 752 var. (bust type); SNG France 990 var. (same); SNG Levante -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Lewis 1733 (same obv. die). Near EF, toned. Very rare variety.