351, Lot: 524. Estimate $150. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Cotiaeum. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (33mm, 17.45 g, 2h). M. Aurelius Menel[aus, the younger?], archon for the second time. ANTΩNINOC AVΓOVCTOC, laureate head right / EΠI M AVPHΛ MENEΛ B APX B/KOT-I-A/EΩ-N, Hercules standing facing, head left, holding seated figure of Cybele and resting hand upon club; drum to right. Apparently unpublished, though cf. Milne, Notes p. 217, 3 (for the same obv. type and magistrate, and a rev. type featuring Hercules wrestling the Ceryneian Hind). VF, brown patina with traces of green. Extremely rare.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection. Ex Patrick Cooper Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 73, 17 September 2003), lot 74.