Bellerophon Slaying the Chimaera

442, Lot: 711. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Apameia. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ (37mm, 24.44 g, 5.5h). Ael. Apollinarios, panegyriarch. AVT · K · ΠO · ΛIK · OVAΛЄPIANO CЄBACTOC, laureate bust right, wearing full aegis with gorgoneion / ΠAP AIΛ ΑΠΟΛINA-PIOV · AΠAMЄΩN, Bellerophon riding to right on Pegasus, spearing chimaera below. Unpublished in the standard references. Good VF, green and brown patina.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 940.