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Triton XVI, Lot: 704. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Dionysopolis. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Medallion (39mm, 37.13 g, 6h). Chares II, hiereus. AVT • KAI • Λ • CЄΠT CЄOVHPOC ΠЄPTI NAΞ •, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / XAPHC B IЄPЄVC ΔIONVCO V in outer margin, ANЄΘH down right field, KЄN up left, ΔIONVCOΠO/ΛЄITΩN in two lines in exergue, Dionysus enthroned left, feet on footstool, pouring wine from cantharus and holding thyrsus; at feet, panther, with head right, standing left, right forepaw raised. von Aulock, Phrygiens 136; SNG von Aulock -; BMC -. VF, dark-green patina, a few earthen deposits. Extremely rare.


Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (not in the Peus sale; includes his envelope).