Gemini III, January 9th, 2007. Lot # 214. 

Holmoi, Cilicia. 4th century BC. AR stater (10.22 gm). 

Helmeted Athena standing left, holding aphlaston-bearing 
Nike in right hand and resting left on shield, 
inverted spear in background, dolphin leaping left in 
left field 
OLMI/TIK—ON, laureate Apollo standing left, half-draped, 
holding patera in right hand and laurel staff in left; 
countermark in right field: bull right, shield in profile 
above, in square punch. 

Traite II, 1449, pl. cxxxix, 14; Cf. SNG Levante 32 
(control letter A on reverse, with same countermark in 
same position). Cf. SNG Paris 120 (DI on obverse). 

Ex NFA VIII, 6 June 1980, lot 320, brought $19,500. 
The dolphin symbol on the obverse is in the same 
position as the pomegranate on Sidetan staters, so the 
dolphin may have been the civic badge of Holmi. Traite 
describes the aphlaston as a branch. 

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Sold for $3750 [ $4312.5, 3333.56 EUR, £2199.37.

Re-used by permission of Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com) 
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