AR Stater CILICIA, NAGIDOS - TIME OF TARKUMUWA (DATAMES), 378-362 BC - circa 370-365 BC cf. Künker Auktion 376, Lot 4774 in xf/unc (€ 3.000 + 25%)

weight 10,74gr. | silver Ø 23mm.

obv. Aphrodite Ourania seated left, holding patera,
at her side winged Eros
rev. Dionysos Linaios standing left, holding bunch of grapes and
resting on thyrsos, NAΓI behind, ΔEΩN before, in exergue ∩

The large-scale coinage of Nagidos in the period 400-333 BC. shows that it prospered during that period and played an important role in the production of staters for payment of mercenaries during the Persian military expeditions. In 379 BC Farnabazu (Pharnabazos), satrap of Daskyon in Bithynia, was given the task of reconquering Egypt for the Persian Empire. Tarkumuwa (Datames), satrap of Cappadocia, was later appointed to assist him. To finance this undertaking large quantities of silver staters were struck in Cilicia, mostly at Tarsos but also in other Cilician cities.

According to Plato, there are two Aphrodites "the elder, having no mother, who is called the heavenly Aphrodite Ourania, she is the daughter of Uranus, and the younger, who is the daughter of Zeus and Dione,  her we call ′common′ (Pandemos)." The same distinction is found in Xenophon although the author is doubtful whether there are two goddesses, or whether Urania and Pandemos are two names for the same goddess, just as Zeus, although one and the same, has many titles but in any case, he says, the ritual of Urania is "purer, more serious", than that of Pandemos.

Dionysos was variably known with the many epithets. Linaios is one of them.
This Dionysos was the god of the wine-press.

cf. Künker Auktion 376, Lot 4774 in xf/unc (€ 3.000 + 25%)
cf. Gorny & Mosch Auktion 314, Lot 437 (in xf € 3.400 + 25%).

BMC-  (cf. 10) | SNG.von Aulock 5754 | SNG.Copenhagen - |
SNG.France 25  SNG.Levante - (cf. 7) | Lederer 23 | Sear- R
Minor  weakness of  strike. Very attractive toning. Rare.
xf-

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