244, Lot: 180. Estimate $150. Sold for $175. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Apameia. Circa 166-133 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 11.88 g, 12h). Cistophoric type. Struck circa 140 BC. Cista mystica within ivy wreath / Bow case between two serpents; monogram to left, bee in frame to right. Kleiner & Noe -; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, toned, porous.

Unpublished with this control symbol. Kleiner Series 18 shows the bee symbol but it lacks the frame. Similar framed symbols of an elephant and owl are also recorded by Kleiner, Series 24 and 25. This obverse die was also used to strike issues for Pergamon, obverse die 83, pl. viii, 2.