Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XIX 26-27 Mar 2020
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Paphlagonia, Sinope AR Tetradrachm. Circa 200-120 BC. Head of Tyche left, wearing turreted stephane; countermark: radiate head of Helios facing, Σ-Ι-Ν-Ω-Π-Ε-Ω-Ν between rays / Archaic cult statue of Apollo Iatros standing to right on base, holding laurel branch and aryballos; monogram to left, NΩ above tripod-lebes to right; countermark: head of Athena left, wearing crested Attic helmet. SNG Stancomb 787 (this coin) = SNG von Aulock 220 (this coin); Recueil général I, 46 (same dies); SNG BM Black Sea 1514 = HGC 7, 408 (same dies). 14.64g, 28mm, 11h.
Very Fine. Extremely Rare; no other examples offered at auction in the past 20 years.
From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000);
This coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Sammlung Hans Von Aulock (Berlin, 1957-1968);
Acquired from A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd, June 1977;
Ex Hans von Aulock Collection.
The cult of Apollo Iatros (= 'the doctor') was exclusive to the Ionian colonies of the Western and the Northern Black Sea coasts from the sixth century BC and is discussed by L. Lacroix in Les reproductions de statues sur les monnaies grecques (Liège 1949) p. 63, pl. 2, 11.
Very Fine. Extremely Rare; no other examples offered at auction in the past 20 years.
From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000);
This coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Sammlung Hans Von Aulock (Berlin, 1957-1968);
Acquired from A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd, June 1977;
Ex Hans von Aulock Collection.
The cult of Apollo Iatros (= 'the doctor') was exclusive to the Ionian colonies of the Western and the Northern Black Sea coasts from the sixth century BC and is discussed by L. Lacroix in Les reproductions de statues sur les monnaies grecques (Liège 1949) p. 63, pl. 2, 11.