Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 213. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYCIA, Oinoanda. Circa 200 BC. AR Didrachm (8.01 g, 12h). Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath; A and scepter behind / Eagle standing right on winged thunderbolt; OI-NO/AN across field. Ashton, Oinoanda 2b (A2/P1 - this coin), otherwise unpublished. EF, toned.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 138 (7 March 2005), lot 129.

This short series of coinage from Oinoanda was apparently struck in three series, marked with A, B, or Γ. Originally these letters were thought to represent dates on a local era, but Ashton’s study shows this is far from conclusive, regardless that they were struck sequentially. Those marked with A are the rarest, with only four known. This example is one of the finest known of the entire series