Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 756. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Adramyteum. Caracalla. 198-217 AD. Æ 36mm (29.34 gm, 6h). Homonoia with Ephesus in Ionia. Marcianus, magistrate. AVTOKP KAI M AVPH ANTWNEINOC AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right, cuirass decorated with aegis / EPI CTP MAPKIANOV B ADRAMUTHNWN K EFECIWN (around), G NEWKORWN OMONOIA (across field) , cult statue of Artemis Ephesia on left, on right Zeus standing facing left, holding eagle and sceptre. Franke & Nollé 15; SNG France -; cf. BMC Mysia pg. 7, 24 (different reverse legend arrangement); SNG Copenhagen -; cf. SNG von Aulock 1058 (same). Good VF, black patina. Very rare, much superior to the specimens illustrated in Franke & Nollé. ($1000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear 8 (5 February 2003), lot 322.