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Triton XVI, Lot: 703. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Apameia. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ Medallion (39mm, 24.82 g, 6h). M. Aur(elius) Alexander II, archon. AVT • K • M • IOVΛ • ΦIΛIΠΠOC AVΓ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ЄΠI • M • AVP • AΛ ЄΞANΔPOV • B, BЄΛ • APXI • AΠA/MЄΩN • in two lines in exergue, lion advancing right on ground line; filleted thyrsus to right; above, cista mystica with conical lid. SNG von Aulock 3511; BMC 183-184 (same dies). Good VF, attractive green and brown patina.


Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (not in the Peus sale; includes his envelope); Gilbert Steinberg Collection (NAC/Spink Taisei, 16 November 1994), lot 888; Boham-Vecchi 1 (21 May 1980), lot 492.