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441, Lot: 351. Estimate $200.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Tridrachm (26mm, 8.73 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Tyche seated left on stool, holding palm frond and cornucopia; below, half-length figure of river-god Cydnus, radiate, swimming left; all within wreath border; c/m: laureate and draped bust right of Caracalla(?) within oval incuse. Prieur 759 for coin & 779 for countermarked issue; SNG Levante –; SNG BN 1406 for coin and countermark; RPC III 3259/19 (this coin cited); for c/m: Howgego 843. VF, toned, some roughness; c/m: VF. Prieur places these issues under Caracalla.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 69, 8 June 2005), lot 1138; Coin Galleries (25 November 1969), lot 1102.