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Drachme (3,27g). Circa 425 - 385 v. Chr. Vs.: Androgyner Gott mit sichelförmigen Doppelflügeln und n. r. eilend, vor den Leib runde Scheibe haltend. Rs.: Panther auf Standlinie n. l. schleichend, darüber MAP, alles im flachen Quadratum incusum. SNG BN ; SNG Levante 127.
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Ex Rauch, Auktion 94, 14.4. 2014, Nr. 418.
Casbonne (Conquête perse et phénomène monétaire: l'exemple cilicien, in: ders. [Hrsg.], Mecanismes et innovations monétaires dans l'Anatolie achéménide. Numismatique et histoire. Actes de la Table Ronde Internationale d'Istanbul, 22-23 mai 1997, Paris 2000, 21-91, 47 f.) suggested that the double-winged figure on the obverse can be identified as Šamaš, a local Cilician sun god. He appears on both sides of the main entrance of the acropolis of Karatepe. There Šamaš carries a winged sun disk above his head. We meet also deities, male or female, in glyptic arts in the Archaic period (cf. Boardman, Greek Gems and Fingerrings, 1970, 286/287).