LYDIA. Saitta. Gallienus, 253-268. Tetrassarion (Bronze, 27 mm, 8.91 g, 6 h), Ka. Ph. Sulla, son of a first asiarch. [AYT K Π ΛIK] ΓAΛΛIHNOC Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gallienus to right, seen from behind. Rev. ЄΠ KA Φ C[YΛΛ YI] ACIAPX A / CAITTH Mên standing front, head to left, wearing Phrygian cap and with crescent on his shoulders, holding pine cone in his right hand and scepter in his left. BMC -. Imhoof-Blumer, LS, -. Imhoof-Blumer, KM, -. SNG Copenhagen -. SNG Leypold -. SNG München -. SNG Righetti 1075 var. (Sulla as archon). SNG Tübingen -. SNG von Aulock -. Winterthur -. Apparently unpublished and unique. Minor flan faults on the reverse, otherwise, good very fine.


Unlike on most of his other coins, Ka. Ph. Sulla here does not call himself first archon but 'son of a first asiarch'. For another example of Sulla boasting his illustrious ancestry, see below, lot 477.