169, Lot: 95. Estimate $150. Sold for $215. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Pamphylia, Attalia. Nerva. AD 96-98. Æ 19mm (6.26 g). Laureate head right / Helmeted and draped bust of Athena right, wearing aegis. RPC II 1507; N. Baydur, “Die Münzen von Attaleia in Pamphylien I” JNG XXV (1975), 182 (Vs155/Rs175). VF, dark green patina.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.

The Roman coinage of Attaleia is difficult to assign to specific reigns because the coins do not carry identifying inscriptions until the reign of Trajan. Baydur assigns this coin to Trajan based on an “unreadable legend” on the known example. This better quality specimen shows there is in fact no obverse legend. This coin probably should be assigned to the reign of Nerva.