Harlan J Berk 
  
 Lycia, Masicytes, Hemidrachm

 Hemidrachm, Lycia, Masicytes, 42 BC, under BRUTUS, 1.71g. 
 Troxell-92, Sear-5295 var. Obv: Head of Apollo, Rx: M A, Lyre, 
 symbol: filleted branch. For the attribution of this issue to 
 Brutus after his conquest of Lycia, see Troxell, Coinage of 
 the Lycian League, pp. 179-180 and pl. 16. Two denarii of 
 Brutus are closely connected to our coin: Crawford 503/1 uses 
 an exactly similar head of Apollo as obverse type, and 
 Crawford 501/1 shows a lyre and a filleted branch on reverse, 
 like the Lycian hemidrachm. After conquering Lycia, then, 
 Brutus struck there not only Lycian League hemidrachms like 
 our coin, but also Roman denarii using the same or similar 
 coin types and in one case the same engravers. Good VF

       Price 
         US$ 600.00  euro 468.35
        £ 316.57
11/14/2006