ASPENDUS SILVER STATER – WARRIOR TYPE DOUBLE OVERSTRUCK OVER CRETAN ISSUES – VF GREEK PAMPHYLIA COIN (Inv. 14804)

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14804. PAMPHYLIA. ASPENDUS. Ca. 465–430 BC.
Silver Stater, 10.88 g, 21 mm.
Obv. Helmeted, nude hoplite marching right, holding shield and spear. Rev. ΕΣT, triskeles, all within incuse square.
SNG Paris 12; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen 175.
VF, overstruck at least once over a coin with a flying eagle right (cf. a Lyttus, Crete specimen in Le Rider, Crétoises, p. 101, no. 5, pl. XXV, 15) and likely another, earlier coin, whose incuse square appears rotated some 15 degrees relative to the other two (Aspendus and Lyttus) that overlap. Since Cretan coins were often overstruck on other issues from the island, this multiple overstrike could be as follows: Aspendus over Lyttus over another Cretan piece.