Very Rare Silandus Medallion

CNG 96, Lot: 646. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Silandus. Crispina. Augusta, AD 178-182. Æ Medallion (41mm, 48.87 g, 6h). Lucius, principal archon. Draped bust right / Male figure (satyr?), holding torch, and Dionysus, holding thyrsus, standing right, facing Pan, raising right hand, standing left; panther at Dionysus’ side; to far left, serpent entwined around altar. LS –; SNG München –; SNG von Aulock 3176-7. VF, green patina, roughness. Very rare.