Savoca Coins
Online Auction 38 | Silver 2 Nov 2019
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Ionia. Ephesos circa 133-67 BC. Dated year 66=69-68 BC
Cistophoric Tetradrachm AR
28 mm., 12,37 g.
Basket (cista mystica), from which snake coils, around, ivy wreath with fruits / Two snakes coiled around a bowcase ornamented with aplustre, between the snake heads, grain ear between two cornucopiae, to left, ΞC (date) above EΦE, to right, lit torch.
very fine
Kleiner, "The Dated Cistophori of Ephesus," ANSMN 18 (1972), 68; SNG Copenhagen 334.
Cistophoric Tetradrachm AR
28 mm., 12,37 g.
Basket (cista mystica), from which snake coils, around, ivy wreath with fruits / Two snakes coiled around a bowcase ornamented with aplustre, between the snake heads, grain ear between two cornucopiae, to left, ΞC (date) above EΦE, to right, lit torch.
very fine
Kleiner, "The Dated Cistophori of Ephesus," ANSMN 18 (1972), 68; SNG Copenhagen 334.