Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 1230. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $230. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Nicaea. Vespasian. 69-79 AD. Æ 20mm (4.87 gm). Laureate head right / Panther seated left, with paws resting on cantharus. RPC II 629; Stumpf 349-351; Waddington, Recuiel 48-49. Good VF, dark brown patina. ($200)

It was commonly thought in antiquity that panthers were fond of wine and that they could be captured by setting a bowl of it out and waiting until they had drunk to excess.