445, Lot: 273. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, League of the Thirteen Cities. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Medallion (41mm, 51.93 g, 12h). Gillespie Type III, Variety 1. Marcus Claudius Fronto, asiarch and high priest of the Thirteen Cities. Laureate and draped bust left / Demeter, holding torch in each hand and with drapery billowing above head, standing right in biga drawn by two winged serpents . Gillespie 17-19 (same obv. die); BMC 2. VF, brown and green surfaces, some roughness. Very rare.