NAGIDUS SILVER STATER – VERY RARE VARIETY OVERSTRUCK OVER CELENDERIS – AU NGC GRADED GREEK CILICIA COIN (Inv. 17576)

$1,750.00

17576.CILICIA. NAGIDUS. Ca. 375–365 BC.
Silver Stater, 10.75 g, 25 mm.
Obv. Aphrodite enthroned left, holding phiale in right hand and resting left arm on throne back; Eros standing left behind. Rev. [N]AΓIΔE[ΩN], Dionysus standing left, holding grape bunch in right hand and thyrsus in left.
P. Lederer, “Die Staterprägung der Stadt Nagidos,” ZfN 41 (1931), Gruppe V, 21; cf. SNG Paris 24–26 (different arrangement of legend and control letter); SNG Levante –; BMC –.
Ex Vilmar Numismatics FPL VI (Winter 2023), no. 49.
NGC graded AU, Strike 3/5, Surface 4/5, “overstruck,” “undertype: Celenderis.” This is an extremely rare issue of Nagidus known to Lederer from only two specimens: one in the Berlin Münzkabinett and the other in the Hunterian Collection. It is overstruck on a horseman/goat stater of Celenderis (cf. Casabonne Type 4), with traces of horseman’s head and dotted border appearing above and to the right of Dionysus’ head.