163, Lot: 171. Estimate $300. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Hadrian. AD 117-134. Æ Medallion (38mm, 43.70 g). Lesbonax, magistrate. EPI STRA L ECBWNAX TO [B], laureate, cuirassed bust of Hadrian right, with aegis / Diana advancing right, holding bow. Mionnet III p. 51, 136. Fine/Fair, rim smoothed into a “proto-contorniate” form, area of encrustation removed from reverse. Rare.