Attractive Local Provincial Issue

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 821. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Laodicea ad Lycum. Autonomous issues. 2nd century AD. Æ 24mm (6.82 g, 12h). P. Aelius Dionysius Sabinianus, magistrate. DHMOC • LAODIKEWN, laureate and draped bust of Demos right / PO (ligate) [A]ILIOC DIONVCIOC in two lines down right field, CA–BINIA/NOC in two lines down right left, Zeus standing left, holding eagle in outstretched right hand and cradling scepter in left arm. Von Aulock, Phrygiens -; SNG Copenhagen 530; SNG München -; SNG von Aulock 3820 (same dies). EF, black-green patina.