Lot 3549

Description

Phoenicia, Arados, (c.2nd century B.C.), silver drachm, (3.250 grams), struck **PQ* = year 89 = 171-170 B.C., obv. bee,in field to left and right **PQ* MC monograms, rev. stag standing to right, palm-tree in background to right **ARADI[WN]*, (cf.S.5989, BMC 148-149 [p.20], cf.P. Kinns "Drachms of Ephesus" Num. Chron. 1999 No.4.12-25); another (3.992 grams), dated 160-159 B.C., (BMC 158). Last with scratches and hoard horn silver, otherwise fine or better. (2)

Ex Patrick Cooper Collection, with his tickets, he acquired it in November 1975 (first coin).