Details
LOT 3192
Lydia, Sardes AE 17mm. Circa 133 BC - AD 1.
Laureate head of Apollo to right / Club; ΣΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ across fields, monogram below; all within laurel wreath. GRPC Lydia 70; SNG Munich 483. Good very fine.(4.57gr, 17mm, 11h.).
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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For the reattribution of this coinage from Thymbra in Troas to Thyessos in Lydia, see D. S. Lenger, "Thyessos in Lydia, not Thymbra in the Troad" in D. Boteva, ed., Ex nummis lux: Studies in Ancient Numismatics in Honor of Dimitar Draganov (Sofia, 2017).
