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366, Lot: 561. Estimate $300.
Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Tralleis. Circa 166-67 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 12.56 g, 1h). Cistophoric type. Ptol-, magistrate. Dated CY 4 (130 BC). Cista mystica with serpent; all within ivy wreath / Two serpents entwined around bow and bowcase; ΠTOΛ above, Δ (date) and TPAΛ to left; to right, Dionysos standing right, holding grape bunch and thyrsos. SNG von Aulock 3263-4 var. (date); SNG Copenhagen 662 var. (same); BMC 44-8 var. (same); Gorny & Mosch 108, lot 1280. Good VF, attractively toned, die break on grape bunch. Rare.


From the Leonidion Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 224 (16 December 2009), lot 220.