Unique Earliest Issue from Gagai

CNG 93, Lot: 424. Estimate $2000. Sold for $6300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYCIA, Gagai. Circa 430-420 BC. AR (13mm, 2.44 g, 1h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Octopus; GAKhE in Lycian, partially inverted, around; all within shallow incuse circle. O. Carruba & N. Vismara, "Una emissione arcaica della città de Gagae," Athenaeum 90 (2002), p. 75 (this coin); otherwise unpublished. VF, toned, light porosity, light cleaning marks. Unique.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 147 (7 March 2006), lot 1496; Giessener Münzhandlung 97 (11 October 1999), lot 424.