Triton XIV, Lot: 336. Estimate $300. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DYNASTS of LYCIA. Uncertain dynast. Late 5th-early 4th centuries BC. AR Diobol (13mm, 1.12 g, 6h). Tlos mint. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet / Head of Hermes right, wearing winged petasos; diskeles to left, kerykeion to right. Cf. SNG von Aulock 4194 (stater with these symbols). EF, toned, double struck on obverse. Very rare, this denomination with these symbols is unpublished.

Ex Ponterio 134 (22 April 2005), lot 1445; Classical Numismatic Group 60 (22 May 2002), lot 838; Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 284.

A variety of dynasts struck Athena/Hermes types during later 5th to early 4th centuries BC (cf. Falghera 191; cf. SNG von Aulock 4196; cf. SNG Copenhagen Supp. 467 and 500; cf. Traité II 414-21; cf. S. Hurter, “Der Tissaphernes-Fund” in Essays Thompson, 31-3). Although this coin does not have an inscription, it’s subsidiary symbols, diskeles and kerykeion, are found on a stater with these types that also has the mint name of Tlos inscribed on its reverse (SNG von Aulock 4194). Other issues bearing the name of Tlos also feature a diskeles (SNG von Aulock 4185-6 and 4188), so assignment to the mint of Tlos is certain. N. Vismara (Monetazione arcaica della Lycia. I. Il dinasta Wekhssere I [Milan, 1989], pp. 106-8) places these diskeles issues contemporary with the reign of Vekhssere I, but even the Tlos-inscribed issues do not bear the name of a dynast, and the hoard evidence is less than convincing.