Tarsos, Cilicia, AE25 civic issue. 164-27 BC. Magistrate
Ortygothera Maximos, son of Nikolaos.

ORTYGOQHRA upwards behind Tyche seated right on throne, holding poppy and corn-ears, river god Kydnos swimming right at her feet.
TARSEWN, Zeus seated left, holding Nike and sceptre. MAXIMOY NIKO-LAOY in three lines in left field.

BMC 124-125; Duke of Devonshire coll. 915; SNG Levante 984; Ziegler Kilikien 651.

With permission of Savoca Numismatik Blue Auction 5, Lot 595, Feb. 2018.