326, Lot: 282. Estimate $300. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LYDIA, Germe. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Medallion (42mm, 41.05 g, 6h). Aelius Aristonicus,
archon. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Herakles seated left on rock draped with lion’s skin, holding club set on ground and cantharus; to left, Apollo, holding plectrum and lyre, and Artemis, drawing arrow from quiver and holding bow; to right, Tyche standing left, crowning Herakles and holding cornucopia. Ehling –; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG von Aulock –; BMC –. Good Fine, rough grayish-brown surfaces. Apparently unpublished.