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201, Lot: 275. Estimate $100.
Sold for $210. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ 22mm (6.95 g, 7h). Draped bust right / Europa seated on bull guided by flying Eros, leaping over a Triton with crab headdress, holding rudder and dolphin. SNG France 984; SNG Levante Supp. 191 (same rev. die). Near VF, red-green patina, minor roughness.


From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

A wonderful compact visual gloss on the Europa legend. Europa, daughter of Agenor, king of Phoenica, was wooed by Zeus, who came to her in the guise of the bull. The coin shows the bull, led by Eros (Love), leaping over the Ocean (the Triton) from Phoenicia to Crete. Agenor sent his sons out to find their wayward sibling, but one of them, Cilix, came to the pleasant shores of Asia Minor and decided to abandon the pursuit and settle there, in the region that came to be known as Cilicia.