LYCIA. Oenoanda. Ca. 2nd century BC. AR stater-didrachm (22mm, 7.97 gm, 12h). NGC AU 4/5 - 4/5, die shift. Dated Year 3 (186/5 BC) Laureate head of Zeus right, scepter surmounted by lotus over shoulder, B behind / OINOAN/ΔЄwN, eagle with folded wings standing right on winged thunderbolt; Γ (date) and grape bunch in right field. Ashton, NC 2005, 13 (A4/P9). Handsomely toned. Until about a decade ago, only a single coin of Oenoanda, the example in the British Museum, was known to exist. The discovery in the early 2000s of a significant group of didrachms brought many more examples to market and added greatly to our understanding of the coinage, revealing that at least three distinct issues, marked by a sequence of letters and symbols, were originally struck. The presence of the lotus-scepter over the shoulder of Zeus and the eagle-on-thunderbolt reverse motif both suggest a close affinity to the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. HID09801242017 © 2022 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved

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