A Selection of Cicilian Coins From the Levante Collection

342, Lot: 419. Estimate $100. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Aegeae. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (29mm, 18.01 g, 7h). Dated CY 260 (AD 213/4). [...]M AY CЄOVHPOC ANTωNЄINOC CЄB, laureate head right / [C]ЄVHPIANΩN [... A]NTΩNЄINOVΠ[...], Asclepius standing facing, head left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff; to left, Telesphorus standing facing; ЄT/OY/C–ΞC (date) across field. SNG France –; SNG Levante –; SNG Levante Supp. –; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Pfälzer –; BMC –. Near VF, dark brown patina, minor pitting on the reverse. Possibly unpublished.

From the Edoardo Levante Collection.

See SNG Levante 1741 (currently being offered here) for a similar reverse. Presumably some shortened form of AIΓЄAIΩN followed CЄVHPIANΩN, as there is very limited space for the full ethnic.