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CNG 100, Lot: 1725. Estimate $300.
Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Cilbianoi Superiores. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ (30mm, 13.24 g, 6h). Diophantos, archon for the third time. ΙOVΛIA ΔOM-NA CЄBACTH, draped bust right; c/m: bare head right / ЄΠI APX ΔIOΦANTOV Γ KIΛBIANΩN TΩN A-NΩ, Zeus standing left, holding eagle in outstretched right hand, scepter in left; at feet to left, eagle standing left, head right, on garlanded altar. Cf. Mionnet IV, 144; otherwise unpublished in the standard references. For c/m: Howgego 169. Good VF, dark green patina, a few adjustment marks.


From the R.H. Collection. Ex Dr. Peter Vogl Collection (Helios 5, 25 June 2010), lot 804; Hauck & Aufhäuser 18 (5 October 2004), lot 488.

See Winterthur II 3772 for a different type of Domna signed by the same magistrate. Howgego cites another coin in Naples, although only the obverse is illustrated.