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A bronze coin of Tarsos in Cilicia showing Tyche and Sandan Coin Type: Bronze coin of Tarsos in Cilicia.
Mint and Date: Tarsos, after 164 BCE.
Size and Weight: 19mm x 20mm, 4.79g
Obverse: Turreted head of Tyche right.
Reverse: Sandan standing right on the back of a horned lion, holding grain ear and bipennis.
TAPΣEΩN to right, AΘH/NOΔ/ΩPO in three lines in left field (almost invisible on this specimen).
Provenance: ancientcoinhouse (eBay), September 2010.
Ref: SNG Levante 969.
BW Ref: 001 052 000
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