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440, Lot: 342. Estimate $500.
Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Aegeae. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.50 g, 12h). Dated year 164 of the Caesarean Era (AD 117/8). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery / AIΓЄAIΩN ЄTOVC ΔΞP (date), bareheaded and draped bust of Perseus right, with harpa over shoulder; below, goat kneeling right. F. Haymann, “Hadrianic Silver Coinage of Aegeae (Cilicia),” AJN 26 (2014), Type 3 (dies O2/R8); Prieur 717 = SNG Levante 1717; RPC III 3334. VF, toned, a few light scratches, touch of porosity. Rare, only one known to Prieur at the time of his publication, ten additional cited by Haymann.


From the Ralph DeMarco ‘Perseus’ Collection.