Sale: Nomos 10, Lot: 56. Estimate CHF1750. Closing Date: Sunday, 17 May 2015. Sold For CHF1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CILICIA, Kelenderis. c. 430-420 BC. Stater (Silver, 22mm, 10.64 g 11). Youthful nude rider holding the reins with his right hand and a goad in his left, seated sideways on horse prancing to left, preparing to jump off and run alongside the horse.
Rev. [ ] Goat kneeling right, its head turned back to left; above, ivy branch. C.M. Kraay, �The Celenderis Hoard�, NC 1962, 14 (
same dies). SNG Paris 48 (
same dies, but with a on the obverse that was erased in the die before our coin was struck). SNG von Aulock 5624 (
same dies). Attractive and lightly toned. Nearly extremely fine.
From an American collection.