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CNG 90, Lot: 978. Estimate $500.
Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Pseudo-autonomous issue. temp. Gordian III, AD 238-244. Æ (29mm, 14.76 g, 6h). Marcus Aurelius Tertius, magistrate. Struck AD 242-244. Veiled and draped bust of Demeter left, holding grain ears in raised right hand and cradling cornucopia in left arm / The Amazon Smyrna, turreted, standing left, holding phiale in right hand, bipennis, pelta, and chlamys in left. Klose 13 (VD2/R13); SNG München -; SNG von Aulock 7992; BMC 243 (all refs. same dies). VF, slightly rough green patina.


From Group CEM.