Two Very Rare Bambyce Didrachms

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 387. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Cyrrhestica. Bambyce. Abyaty. Circa 342-331 BC. AR Didrachm (8.28 g, 1h). "Hadad and Ateh" in Aramaic, female head facing; circle to left, [rosette to right] / “Abyaty” in Aramaic, Great King and driver, who hold reins, in quadriga of mules right. Mildenberg, Note 4 (this coin); Seyrig, Hieropolis 4; Price, More 16-17; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG München -. EF, light iridescent toning around devices, three test cuts and banker’s mark on reverse. Very rare.

From the David Herman Collection. Ex James C. Brindley Collection (Baldwin’s 34, 13 October 2003), lot 586; Giessener Münzhandlung 67 (2 May 1994), lot 331.