Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1736. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Cibyra. Time of Domitian. Circa 81-96 AD. Æ 19mm (3.98 gm). KIBVPI-W, veiled and draped bust of Ino right / EPI APXIEP KLAY BIANTOC, humped bull crouching right. RPC II 1267; BMC Phrygia pg. 134, 21, pl. XVI, 6; Imhoof-Blumer, Kleinasiatische Münzen pg. 253, 18; Imhoof-Blumer, Griechische Münzen pg. 207, 657a corr., pl. XII, 7 (obverse misread as IAL and misdescribed as Dionysos). Good VF, dark brown (near black) patina. ($300)

From the David Simpson Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen Auktion 76 (19 September 1991), lot 519. Ino was the child of Kadmos and Harmonia. In the Odyssey, she lent her magic veil to Ulysses (Od. V. 353).

Ino was the child of Kadmos and Harmonia. In the Odyssey, she lent her magic veil to Ulysses (Od. V. 353).