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Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 500. Closing Date: Jun 08, 
2005. ISLANDS off CILICIA. Elaiussa Sebaste. 
Circa 93-84 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.82 gm, 1h). 
BID Estimate $1500  

ISLANDS off CILICIA. Elaiussa Sebaste. Circa 93-84 
BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.82 gm, 1h). Turreted and 
veiled head of Tyche right / Female (Aphrodite?) 
standing left, holding tiller; monogram and 
aplustre to outer left, ZH to inner left. Houghton 
Bendall 4 (A3/P4 ­ this coin); SNG Levante -; 
cf. SNG France 1152. Near EF, toned, areas of 
slight roughness. Extremely rare. ($1500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Triton VI 
14-15 January 2003), lot 441; Tkalec and Rauch 
16-17 November 1987), lot 141.

Seven tetradrachms of Elaiussa are apparently 
known: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale; Washington, 
Smithsonian (broken); London, British Museum; SNG 
Levante Supp. 221; CNG 36, lot 2037; CNG 45, lot 
475; and the present specimen. According to 
Houghton and Bendall, the present piece appeared 
in 1986 in a hoard which also included seven 
Aegeae tetradrachms. The issue is to be dated 
after c. 95-94 BC, when Seleukos VI struck coins 
at Elaiussa, but before 83 BC, when Tigranes 
extinguished the city’s independent existence. 
Elaiussa was an island in antiquity but is now 
joined to the mainland.

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High bid of $1480, $1702 including 15% buyers fee, or approximately €1198.8, £814, C$1850, A$1924, on June 8, 2005.

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