Rare Bambyce Didrachm

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 568. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $2650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Cyrrhestica. Bambyce. Uncertain king I. Circa 342-331 BC. AR Didrachm (7.89 g, 10h). Draped bust of Atargatis left, wearing conical hat; star above crescent before, rosette behind / Great King and driver, who hold reins, in quadriga of mules left; pellet in crescent above. Mildenberg, Note 7 (this coin); cf. Seyrig, Hieropolis 5; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG München -. VF, toned, minor porosity, area of flat strike at edge. Very rare.

Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 64 (11 October 1993), lot 207.