223, Lot: 461. Estimate $75. Sold for $125. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Fourrée Denarius (20mm, 3.09 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Struck AD 218-219. ANTONINVS PIVS FELIX AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Galley with eight rowers right. Cf. RIC IV 188 (different obv. legend); cf. BMCRE 277 (same); cf. RSC 27 (same). VF, toned, minor breaks in the plating, area of active corrosion on the edge around 5 o’clock.
See CNG E-148, lot 389 and CNG E-188, lot 389 for other, apparently unplated, examples.