304, Lot: 126. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CILICIA, Kelenderis. 2nd-1st centuries BC. Æ (22mm, 6.23 g, 12h). Turreted and veiled bust of Tyche right; c/m: head right, wearing crested helmet, within circular incuse / Apollo standing left, holding branch tied with fillets, leanging on column upon which sits a tripod. SNG France 727-35 var.; SNG Levante Supp. 130. VF, black patina.
From the Kelly J. Krizan, M.D. Collection.
Unusual spacing of the reverse ethnic which is normally found in a straight line to the right of the column. See VAuctions Sale 259, lot 16 for another specimen from the same dies, with the same countermark.