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Lot 151

Starting price: 130 USD
Price realized: 110 USD
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Pisidia, Comama. AE 14; Pisidia, Comama; 1st cent. BC, AE 14, 2.95g. Apparently unpublished reverse type at Comama. Obv: Laureate head of Zeus r., border of dots. Rx: Boar springing l., KO below boar but above exergue line, border of dots. Not in von Aulock's article on the coinage of Comama in Jahrb. für Num. 1970, nor in CoinArchives. This small bronze coin of Comama is well known with a lion springing left and KO in exergue on the reverse (Aulock-5), but on our example the beast has a smooth neck without mane, pointed ears, and a boar-like snout, and the KO is placed above not below the exergue line. Moreover the forepart of a boar, including head, neck, and forelegs but not body and hind legs, also appears on Aulock-6, another small bronze of Comoma of similar date and with similar Zeus head on obverse.This coin is apparently unpublished with a running boar instead of a lion on the reverse. EF
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