346, Lot: 252. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Aegeae. Pseudo-autonomous issue. temp. Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161. Æ (13mm, 2.45 g, 12h). Dated CY 185 (AD 138/9). Helmeted bust of Athena right, wearing aegis / [AIΓAI]ωИ in exergue, goat kneeling to left; ЄΠΡ (date) above. SNG Levante 1727 (this coin); SNG France –. VF, attractive green patina.

Ex Edoardo Levante Collection.

Like the earlier coinage of Macedonian Aegeae, many coins of Cilician Aegeae feature a goat (αίξ, pl. αίγες) as a play on words.