407, Lot: 254. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Perinthus. Claudia Octavia. Augusta, AD 54-62. Æ (28mm, 14.20 g, 1h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Cult statue of Hera Samios standing left. RPC I 1755; Schönert-Geiss 255; Varbanov 3694. VF, dark green patina, rough in spots. Rare.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 176 (9 March 2009), lot 1564.

The trading center of Perinthus was founded by colonists from Samos around 600 BC, and the cult of Samian Hera was established in the city also. Perinthus became the second most important trading emporium in Thrace, after Byzantium.