Very Rare Type
Varbanov Plate Coin

300, Lot: 140. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Plotinopolis. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (24mm, 7.38 g, 6h). Radiate and cuirassed bust right / Three nymphs, hand in hand, the outer two holding uncertain objects. Varbanov 1863 (R8 – this coin cited and illustrated). VF, green patina, fields smoothed. Very rare.

From the Mark Staal Collection of the Three Graces. Ex J.P. Righetti Collection (Münzen und Medaillen GmBH 15, 21 October 2004), lot 189.