Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 1
Lot: 155

     AEOLIS. Cyme. Ca. 145 BC. Silver tetradrachm (16.93 gm). 
      Head of Amazon Cyme right, wearing hairband / KUMAIWN,, 
      horse walking right, left foreleg raised above eagle 
      standing right on thunderbolt, one-handled cup on ground 
      beneath horse, magistrate's name HRAKLEIDHS in exergue, 
      all in laurel wreath. Oakley, ANSMN 27, 64 (same obverse 
      die). With a large head of lovely style. Pleasingly 
      toned. Extremely fine 

      Ex Commander David R. Hinkle Collection. 

      Heracleides was the only Cymean magistrate to include a 
      subsidiary symbol on his coinage. Oakley, ANSMN 27, p. 4 
      noted that the eagle was one of the civic symbols, found 
      on earlier coinage of Cyme. 
      Estimated Value: $ 1,250 

...Sold for $1,000 USD [ approx 760 EUR, 530 GBP ] plus 15% buyers fee. 

Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. 

Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) 
    and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com).