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Lot 4245    SESSION 16 (9.30AM THURSDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER)    Greek Silver & Bronze Coins - Celtic - Susanian

Estimate $600
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $380

CILICIA, Aegeae, Hadrian, (A.D. 117-138), issued 117-118, silver tridrachm, (10.56 g), obv. laureate bust of Hadrian to right with slight drapery on left shoulder, dotted border, around **AUTOKR KAI*C TPAIANOC **ADRIANO*C CEB, rev. **AIGEAIWN* vertical upwards on left, ETOYC *DXR* curved downwards on the right, Amaltheia standing facing head to right, with kalathos on head holdig cornucopiae in right hand and wreath bearing infant Zeus on left arm, in lower right field a goat kneeling right, with head reverted, dotted border, (S.-, Lorber and Michaels "Quaderni Ticinesi, 2007" No.32 [This Coin, obv.1, rev.1] p.222; Prieur -, SNG Paris -, SNG Levante 1713, SNG von Aulock -). Nearly very fine/very fine, very rare.

Ex Freeman & Sear, at Chicago Coin Fair, 26 April 2009, with collector ticket.
This coin from a hoard of 415 + catalogued by Catherine Lorber and David Michaels "The Silver Coinage of Aegeae in the Reign of Hadrian" published in Numismatica E Antichita Classiche, Volume XXXVI, (2007), Quaderni Ticinesi pages 205-230, plates I - XII. Others have appeared on the market since then making the total hoard over 500 pieces. Prior to the discovery of the hoard about 75 examples of this city have been published in private collections. Both authors record this type having a large thin flan.

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