Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 487. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $725. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYCIA, Oinoanda. After 188 BC. AR Didrachm (7.56 gm, 12h). Dated year 3 (186/5 BC?). Laureate head of Zeus right; lotus-tipped sceptre over shoulder, B (partially erased in die) behind / OINOANDE/wN below in two lines, eagle standing right on winged thunderbolt, wings closed, sceptre (or sword) behind round shield in right field, G (year) beneath the eagle’s tail. BMC Lycia pg. 73, 1 (same dies). Good VF. ($1000)

This piece, struck from the same dies as the previous coin, marks the transition from year 2 to year 3. The B (=2) has been erased (although only partially) on the obverse die, and a G (=3) has been added to the reverse die. This coin is struck from the same dies, in the same state, as the previously unique British Museum specimen.

See lot 484 for more information on the coinage of Oinoanda.