Alföldi Plate Coin
Ex Mabbott and Martinetti Collections
Pedigreed to 1907

CNG 112, Lot: 671. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Contorniates. Late 4th century AD. Æ Contorniate (37.5mm, 26.98 g, 10h). DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER, laureate head of Divus Augustus right; PE monogram engraved in right field / Hunting in the amphitheater (a brick-walled circus building); within, a large tree and several smaller plants; a series of animals, all running right: two deer, one above the other, a dog below; left of the tree, a hare pursued by hunting dog above it. Alföldi, Kontorniat 122, pl. 41, 12 (this coin). Red-brown patina, some green. Good Fine. Very rare.

Ex Phil Peck (“Morris”) Collection; Harding Collection (Hans M. F. Schulman, 10 October 1972), lot 882; Thomas Ollive Mabbott Collection (Part Two, Hans M. F. Schulman, 27 October 1969), lot 4848; Francesco Martinetti Collection (Sambon & Canessa, 18 November 1907), lot 3142.