173, Lot: 373. Estimate $300. Sold for $751. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Laodicea ad Lycum. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Medallion (41mm, 40.58 g). L. Aelius Pigres, Asiarch. AVT KAI M AVP ANTWNEINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / [L AIL PIGR]HC ACIAPXHC G ANEQHKE, Caracalla standing facing, head left, raising arm and holding sceptre, in spread quadriga facing, LAODIKEWN NEWKORWN in exergue. BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; cf. Waddington 7072 for magistrate. Fine, brown patina, a few scrapes and edge nicks. Very rare.

From the Alain Lagrange Collection. Ex Sotheby's London (28 May 1987), lot 84.