Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 6 | Auction date: 9 December 2018 |
Lot number: 599 | |
Lot description: PHRYGIA. Stectorium. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Diassarion (Bronze, 24 mm, 8.11 g, 5 h), Ait. Flavios Sestyllianos, circa 161/2. ΔHMOC CTЄKTOPHNΩN Laureate head of Demos to right. Rev. AIT ΦΛ CHCTYΛΛIANOC Tyche standing front, head to left, holding rudder with her right hand and cornucopiae with her left. Martin, Stektorion 1 = RPC IV online 2194 (2 specimens). Very rare. Earthen deposits, otherwise, nearly very fine. The use of the nominative case in the reverse legend and the formulation AIT (for AITHCAMENOC, lit. 'who called for the vote') indicates that Flavios Sestyllianos was a local benefactor who applied to the local authorities for the right to pay for a coin emission of his polis. Starting Price: 50 CHF |