Lot 3216

Description

Cilicia, Aegae, (60/50 - 47 B.C.), AE 16, (3.10 grams), obv. helmeted head of Athena to right, within dotted border, rev. goat lying to left, above **AIGEAIWN/ THS IERA[S], monogram of O/M **Y*, below **KAI /AUTONO[MOU]*, (S.-, SNG Levante 1673 [This Coin, Plate 113], H.Bloesch 'Hellenistic Coins of Aegeae' ANS Museum Notes 27 No.210 [This Coin and illustrated plate 21, the finest of the two known examples]). Dark green patina, nearly extremely fine and very rare.

Ex Edoardo Levante Collection. Bloesch only records one other coin, not as fine as the above example and this piece was the example in the Pozzi Collection.