Exceptional Aulus Gabinus

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 301. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Philip I Philadelphos. Circa 95/4-76/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.31 g, 12h). Posthumous issue under Aulus Gabinius, Roman proconsul, 57-55 BC. Diademed head of Philip right / [BA]SIL[EWS] FILIPPO[U] EPIFANOUS FILADELFO[U], Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram (of Gabinius) to inner left, monogram below throne; all within wreath. RPC I 4124; Prieur 1; SNG Copenhagen 431 (as Philip). Superb EF, iridescent toning.

Ex New York Sale XI (11 January 2006), lot 208.