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342, Lot: 1054. Estimate $150.
Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PADUANS. Antinoüs. Died AD 130. Cast WM Medal (39mm, 20.88 g, 6h). Obverse after Giovanni Cavino. ANTIN OOΣ • OKTIΛIOΣ • MAPKEΛΛO • C O (IP)ЄYC TOV, bareheaded and draped bust right / • АΔΡΙΑΝΟΣ • ωKOΔΟΗΣΕΝ (Hadrian built), shrine of Antinoüs: statue of Antinoüs standing within aedicula set on basis set on raised floor; all within elaborate two-story tetrastyle temple façade with four steps; intercolumnations decorated with figural panels; above, entablature with ornate frieze; in pediment; ibises flanking winged caduceus; below shrine, crocodile right, preparing to consume ibis. Attwood 1239. VF, toned.


Reportedly from the Apostolo Zeno Collection (not in the Dorotheum sale).