Gemini III, January 9th, 2007



                  Lot # 208 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$1000 / Price 
                  Realized: US$675 
                  LYCIA. Oenoanda. Silver stater 



             



            LYCIA. Oenoanda. Ca. 200 BC. Silver stater (8.53 gm). Laureate head 
            of Zeus right, lotus scepter and B behind neck / OINOAN/ÄEù[N], 
            eagle standing three-quarters right on thunderbolt, Ã and grape 
            cluster in right field. Ashton, NC 2005, 13bb (this coin). Dark 
            toning. Extremely fine. 

            Ashton draws attention to an inscription from the Letoon at Xanthus 
            that alludes to a local era at Oenoanda. The inscription itself is 
            not certainly dated, and it may indicate either 197 or 189/8 BC as 
            the first year of the era. If, as seems likely, the numbers on 
            Oenoanda’s didrachms are era dates, this specimen would be dated 
            either 195 or 187/6 BC. As to the motives that induced Oenoanda to 
            produce its only silver coinage, Ashton tentatively suggests that 
            the didrachms may have helped to finance construction of the city’s 
            Hellenistic walls. 




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  ... Lot 208 sold for high bid of $675 [ $776.25, or approx 600.04125 EUR, 395.8875 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 


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