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21 February 2016
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A super-duper rarity from Kys, minor city in inland Caria

Starting Price: 200 CHF
Hammer Price:  380 CHF
Lot 367

CARIA, Kys. 2nd-1st century BC. Bronze (14mm, 2.38 g 9). Laureate head of Artemis to right; behind, quiver. Rev. KYITΩN Quiver and hunting-spear (?); all within wreath. Head HN p. 617. A. v. Sallet, Die Erwerbungen des Königlichen Münzkabinets vom Jahre 1884 (ZfN XIII, 1885), p. 71. BM Occasional Paper 25, 1981, p. 193. BMC -. SNG Copenhagen -. SNG München -. SNG von Aulock -. Of the highest rarity. A fascinating and most attractive coin. Minor encrustations, otherwise, good very fine.


Kys was a minor city situated in inland Caria in the hills between Bargasa and Alabanda that is believed to have been formed out of the earlier Koinon of the Lagnokeis. It struck some autonomous bronzes in the late Hellenistic era and a few provincial coins in the name of Julia Domna in imperial times, all of which are exceptionally rare today.

Online bidding closes: 21 Feb 2016, 18:03:30 CET Current Date & Time: 2 Aug 2025, 09:09:26 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:380 CHF by Clio (5 bids)
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