Third Known

CNG 99, Lot: 267. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Syangela. Early 4th century BC. AR Drachm (12.5mm, 4.24 g, 7h). Head of Dionysos left, wearing ivy wreath / Kantharos; Σ-YA above; to left, inverted grape bunch on vine with leaf; all within incuse square with rounded corners. Cf. Yarkin 1; cf. SNG Keckman 264 (quarter drachm); cf. CNG E-286, lot 133 (hemidrachm); Künker 226, lot 494 = G. Hirsch 269, lot 2488 var. (grapes on right). VF, toned, area of weak strike. Extremely rare, only the third drachm of Syangela published.