GS75217. Silver half siglos, SNGvA 7000; Rec Gen I.2 p. 312, 3, pl. XLIX, 18, BMC Pontus p. 130, 8; HGC 7 553 (C); cf. SNG Cop 377 (same magistrate, 1/4 siglos), VF, attractive style, light marks, slightest etching and porosity, Kios (near Gemlik, Turkey) mint, weight 2.416g, maximum diameter 13.4mm, die axis 90
o, Poseidonios, magistrate, c. 340 - 315 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Apollo right, KIA above; reverse war galley prow left, ornamented with star over an apotropaic eye, waves indicated on side of hull, ΠOΣΕIΔ/ΩNIOΣ (magistrate's name) in two lines one above and one below;
rare with KIA above;
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