Choice Apollonia Pontica Bronze

243, Lot: 229. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Apollonia Pontica. Caracalla. Caesar, AD 196-198. Æ (23mm, 5.73 g, 7h). Bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Hygeia standing right, feeding serpent held in arms, facing Asklepios standing facing, head left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff. Varbanov 833 (same dies as illustration); Moushmov -. Near EF, golden tone, broad flan. Very rare.