Watch List notes:

CILICIA. Aegeae. Diadumenian, as Caesar, 217-218. Tetrassarion (Orichalcum, 28 mm, 16.29 g, 1 h), CY 264 = 217/8. MA OΠ ANTΩNINOC KAICAP Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Diadumenian to right. Rev. MAKPЄINOYΠ M ЄYΓ Π Θ // AIGAIΩN / ΔΞC Goat recumbent right. BMC 34. Haymann 147b (same dies). SNG Copenhagen 147b. Rare. A lovely and unusually attractive piece. Good very fine.


Aegeae was an early Hellenistic foundation named after the eponymous old Macedonian royal residence of Aegeae in Macedonia. The reverse of this coin shows a goat recumbent to the right, the city's coat of arms, as Aegeae literally means 'city of goats'.