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17 December 2023
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Probably the First Coin from Toriaion Known

Starting Price: 100 CHF
Hammer Price:  850 CHF
Lot 404

LYCIA. Toriaion. Circa 3-2nd century BC. (Bronze, 14 mm, 3.79 g, 9 h). Turreted head of Tyche to right. Rev. TOPIAITΩN around an uncertain symbol. Apparently unique and unpublished. Some earthen deposits, otherwise, very fine.



Very little is known about Toriaion, a town in ancient Lycia. During the Roman Empire it became a colony and seems to have survived into Byzantine times. It has been assumed by Meadows (Meadows, Civic Countermarks on the Silver Coinage of Asia minor in the 2nd Century B.C., in: Tekin (ed.), Proceedings of the Second International Congress on the History of Money and Numismatics in the Mediterranean World, Antalya 2017, p. 190) that countermarks on tetradrachms from Side can be traced back to Toriaion (for a specimen see: Leu Winterthur 20E, 16.07.2022, 1339). No other coinages have so far been ascribed to Toriaion, making this unassuming bronze issue potentially the first coin to appear from that town after more than 2000 years.

Online bidding closes: 17 Dec 2023, 17:22:00 CET Current Date & Time: 27 Apr 2024, 22:14:23 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:850 CHF by jscalev (12 bids)
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