418, Lot: 396. Estimate $500. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CILICIA, Aegeae. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Tridrachm (27mm, 9.74 g, 7h). Dated Caesarian Year 177 (AD 130/1). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Veiled, draped bust right of Hygeia; serpent emerging from her drapery to feed from phiale below; below bust, goat kneeling left, head right. Prieur –; Metcalf,
Cistophori –; RPC III 3345. Near VF, toned, a few deposits and some porosity. Very rare.
Ex Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio (NYINC, 12 January 2017), lot 5193; Gorny & Mosch 156 (5 March 2007), lot 1804.