First Obverse Die in Series

CNG 102, Lot: 404. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AEOLIS, Kyme. Circa 155-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.58 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Metrophanes, magistrate. Head of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing tainia / Horse prancing right; one-handled cup below raised foreleg, MHTPOΦANHΣ below; all within wreath. Oakley dies 1/t; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen 104 (same dies). EF, a hint of die wear on obverse. Struck from the first obverse die in this extensive series.

From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 88 (14 September 2011), lot 306.