Unique Facing Deity From the Levante Collection

Triton XVIII, Lot: 687. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Mallos. Circa 440-390 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 11.01 g, 7h). Bearded male deity with four wings facing, holding solar disk before him with both hands; spears(?) diagonally in background / Swan standing left; MAP above wings; all in dotted square within incuse square. Cf. Casabonne Types 1–2; SNG Levante Supp. 22 (this coin), otherwise unpublished. EF, test cut on reverse with corresponding flat area on obverse. Apparently unique.

From the Edoardo Levante Collection.