Watch List notes:

GREEK COINS

Lydia. Philadelphia. Imperial Times, circa 215-230. 3 Assaria (Bronze, 25 mm, 8.56 g, 6 h), struck to commemorate the alliance between Philadelphia in Lydia and Ionian Smyrna. ΔΗΜΟC ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΕΩΝ Diademed head of Demos of Philadelphia to right. Rev. ΟΜΟ Κ CMYP Γ ΝΕΩ Skylla, with two fish tails and two dog's foreparts coming from her waist, brandishing a rudder in her upraised right hand and, in her left, grasping the hair of a sailor of Odysseus fleeing to right; on the left, another sailor fleeing to left, attacked by one of Skylla's dogs. BMC - (but from the same obverse die as BMC 116 ). SNG Copenhagen -. SNG Munich - (but from the same obverse die as 435-436). SNG von Aulock - (but from the same obverse die as 3067). Apparently unpublished. With a dark olive-green patina and an extraordinary reverse. Very clearly struck. Good very fine.

From a European collection.