Ancient Coins

Ancient Coins, Greek, Aiolis, Kyme (c.165-140 BC), silver tetradrachm, Magistrate Metrophanes, head of the Amazon Kyme facing r., her hair bound with a taenia, rev. KYMAIΩN, horse standing r., a one-handled cup below its raised l. foreleg, in ex. magistrate’s name MHTPOΦANHΣ, all within a wreath, wt. 16.71gms. (J. Oakley, The Autonomous Wreathed Tetradrachms of Kyme, Aeolis, ANS. MN. 27, 1982, 1-12; SNG Copenhagen 104; Jameson 1460), extremely fine