Ex Edoardo Levante Collection

431, Lot: 232. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Issos. Tiribazos. Satrap of Lydia, 388-380 BC. AR Stater (19mm, 10.68 g, 1h). Ba’al standing left, holding eagle and scepter / Ahura-Mazda, body terminating in winged solar disk, facing, head right, holding wreath and lotus flower. Casabonne Series 1; SNG France 416; SNG Levante 176 (this coin). VF, toned, area of minor roughness on obverse. Rare and choice for issue. The nicest of only 9 examples in CoinArchives.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 97 (17 September 2014), lot 257; Edoardo Levante Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 64, 24 September 2003), lot 308.