Lot 3337

Phrygia / Laodikeia ad Lycum - AE18 Assarion (struck by Pythes, son of Pythes Pythou, magistrate - ΠYΘHΣ Bare head of Pythes to right / ΛAOΔIKEΩN ΔHMOΣ Diademed and bearded head of Demos to right (RPC I 2902 / SNG Copenhagen 509 / BMC 55) - a very rare coin with a wonderful portrait of Pythes, with black-green patina, XF, beauty (cf. Nomos 6 May 2012, 133, same dies / cf. Leu Web Auction 30, 1410, same dies)