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

$2,500.00

FPL VI, 49 (17576). CILICIA. NAGIDUS. Ca. 375-365 BC.
Silver stater, 10.75 g, 25 mm. Overstruck on a horseman/goat stater of Celenderis (cf. Casabonne Type 4). Traces of horseman’s head and dotted border appear above and to right of the head of Dionysus.
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 -.
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. No examples appear in Coin Archives. The rarity of the piece is increased by the fact that it is overstruck on a Celenderis host coin.