Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 502. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GALATIA, Pessinos. 1st century BC. Æ 24mm (15.69 gm, 12h). Jugate draped busts right of Attis, wearing Phrygian cap, and Kybele Agditis, wearing turreted crown; crescent to lower right / Lion seated left, right paw placed on tympanon; caps of the Dioskouroi flanking, uncertain object to right. SNG France 2563; SNG Copenhagen -. Near VF, brown patina with earthen highlights. Very rare. ($200)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

Pessinos was the capital of the Tolistobogii, a Gallic tribe that had settled in the area. The city was best known for its temple of Kybele, who was known locally as Agditis.