Extremely Rare Nagidos Third Stater

456, Lot: 185. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Nagidos. Circa 400-385/4 BC. AR Third Stater (14mm, 3.25 g, 5h). Aphrodite seated left, holding phiale; to right, Eros standing left, crowning her with wreath / Dionysos standing left, holding grape bunch on vine and thyrsos. Lederer –; Casabonne Type 4; SNG BN –; SNG Levante –. Darkly toned, some porosity, light cleaning marks on obverse. VF. Extremely rare denomination for the mint, one of only three in CoinArchives (the others: Savoca Online Auction 27, lot 221, and Gorny & Mosch 212, lot 2185 [all from the same dies]).

From the BRN Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 309 (21 August 2013), lot 102.