Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1070. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Pentassarion (20.63 g, 1h). Cl. Proclus, stephanophorus, and Cl. Bion, strategus. Struck AD 100-105. Laureate head right / Hercules standing left, with lion skin over forearm and holding club, being crowned with wreath by female figure standing facing with head left. Klose LXXI, Series B, Group a (V7/R- [unlisted rev. die]); SNG Copenhagen -; cf. SNG von Aulock 7999. VF, green patina, minor roughness.

From the James E. Cain Collection.