Unpublished Mytilene Medallion

442, Lot: 675. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ Medallion (46mm, 37.28 g, 6h). Valerius Aristomachos, strategos. · · AVT · K · Π · ΛIK · BAΛЄPIANOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ЄΠI CTP · B-A-Λ· APICTO/MA/XOV, [M]VTIΛHN/[A]IΩN in exergue, Asklepios seated left on throne, holding patera and scepter and feeding snake coiling upwards on left. Unpublished in the standard references. VF, green patina, adjustment marks, a hint of smoothing. Extremely rare.

Ex LHS 100 (23 April 2007), lot 544.