PAMPHYLIA. Sillyon. 3rd century BC. AE (Bronze, 19 mm, 4.91 g, 1 h). Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. ΣΕΛΥИΙΥΣ Zeus seated left on low throne, holding long scepter in his left hand and eagle standing right with closed wings in his right; to left, thunderbolt. SNG Copenhagen 437. SNG Paris 957. SNG PFPS 901-3. Rare. Minor roughness, otherwise, about extremely fine.


This earliest issues of Sillyon such as this one still carry the indigenous ethnic ΣΕΛΥΝΙΥΣ instead of the later Hellenized ΣΙΛΛYEΩN on the reverse.