Details
LOT 3194
Lydia, Thyessos AE 16mm. Circa 4th Century BC.
Laureate head of Zeus Ammon to left / Eight-rayed star, Θ-Y above. GRPC Lydia 3; BMC 3 (Troas, Thymbra); SNG von Aulock 1584 (same). Very Fine.(4.06gr, 16mm, 10h.).
Provenance
Acquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
Footnotes
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).
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