LYCIAN LEAGUE. Circa 167-100 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 15 mm, 2.67 g, 12 h), Myra, for Kormos or Korydalla. Laureate head of Apollo right, with bow and quiver over his shoulder.
Rev. ΛYKIΩN / K-O Kithara; to lower left, Isis crown; all within rectangular incuse. CNG E-Auction 350 (2015), 257 corr. (same obverse die, but misattributed as an imitation) = R. Reynaudo: Drachmes inédites de la ligue lycienne, in: BSFN 71 (2016), p. 247, fig. 5. Leu Web Auction 10 (2019), 509. Troxell, Lycian, -. Extremely rare, the fourth known example. Some scratches and struck slightly off center
, otherwise, very fine.
From a European collection, acquired before 2021.
The attribution of the extremely rare KO-drachms of the Lycian League is currently unclear: Reynaudo suggests either Kormos or Korydalla, both of which were unknown to Troxell to have issued any coinage in the Hellenistic period. It is worth noting that all four known examples were struck from an obverse die also used for coins of Myra, Phaselis, Olympos and Aperlai, which suggests a centralized production of the entire series by a single mint, probably Myra.
