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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Lydia| > |Other Lydia| > GB95821
Kaystriani, Lydia, 2nd - 1st Century B.C.
|Other| |Lydia|, |Kaystriani,| |Lydia,| |2nd| |-| |1st| |Century| |B.C.|, "The peoples of the plain of the lower Kayster river issued small coins in the 2nd or 1st century BC. Only one coin has been suggested as having been struck in imperial times." -- Greek| and Roman| Imperial| |Coins - |Lydia GRPC Lydia) by Dane Kurth
GB95821. Bronze AE 20, GRPC Lydia II Kaystriani 1; BMC Lydia p. 60, 1; SGCV II 4695; SNG Cop -; SNG Munchen -; SNG Tubingen -, F, dark near black patina with brassy spots, cleaning scratches, bumps, trace of a pre-strike casting sprue, tribal Kaystrianoi mint, weight 6.030g, maximum diameter 20.4mm, die axis 0o, magistrate Socrates, 2nd - 1st century B.C.; obverse ΣΩΣIKPATOYΣ, head of Apollo right; reverse winged kerykeion (caduceus), KAYΣTPI/ANΩN starting downward on left, ending upward on right, followed on right by ΠHTP monogram after ethnic; this is the first coin of any type from the Kaystriani handled by FORVM, zero sales of this type recorded on Coin Archives in the last two decades (similar coins half this size are less rare); very rare; SOLD




  







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