Triton XXII, Lot: 274. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LYCIA, Oinoanda. Circa 200 BC. AR Didrachm (19mm, 7.92 g, 12h). Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath; A and lotus-tipped scepter to left / Eagle standing right on winged thunderbolt; OI-NO/AN in two lines across field. Ashton,
Oinoanda 1 (A1/P1), otherwise unpublished. EF, dark iridescent toning. Well centered and sharply struck from the first die pairing of the series. Extremely rare and the finest of the four known from these dies.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 93 (22 May 2013), lot 425.