EPHESUS SILVER CISTOPHORUS – RARE YEAR 21 ISSUE EX SALTON COLLECTION – NGC VF GREEK IONIA COIN (Inv. 20876)

$850.00

20876. IONIA. EPHESUS. AFTER ca. 133 BC.
Silver Cistophorus, 12.68 g, 29 mm. Issue dated to civic year 21 (114/3 BC)
Obv. Cista mystica with snake within ivy wreath. Rev. Snakes around bow case, grain stalk above, EΦE in left field, KA above torch in right field.
Kleiner, Ephesus, 26; SNG Copenhagen 322 (same dies); Carbone, Hidden Power, XXXIV, 1 (O77/R140).
Ex Salton Family Collection, likely acquired sometime in the 1950s–1960s when Mr. Salton owned a numismatic dealership in New York.
NGC CH VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5, “die shift,” gray cabinet patina, a rare date as Carbone lists only two specimens for year 21 and there have been no other pieces in the market over the last 25 years.