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CNG 85, Lot: 8. Estimate $500.
Sold for $3005. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of SOPHENE. Morphilig. Circa 150 BC. Æ (16mm, 2.89 g, 12h). Diademed head right, wearing pot-shaped tiara; star to left, small crescent to right / Uncertain figure (Anahit?) standing left, holding filleted wreath; monogram to left, [...]AИI[...] above, [...]ATE[...] to right, MOΛΦIΛΣ below. Bedoukian, Coinage -; AC -. Fine, black patina, minor roughness. Extremely rare and apparently unpublished.


From the R.A. Collection. Ex Araratian Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 36, 5 December 1995), lot 538.