Ithyphallic Priapus

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 428. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Assarion (18mm, 3.83 g, 2h). AV KAI CE CEVHPOC, laureate head right / NIKOPOLI TWN PROC IC, ithyphallic Priapus standing left, pointing downward with right hand at his characteristic attribute, left hand on hip. AMNG I 1380; SNG München -; Mouchmov 987; Varbanov 1789. EF, dark green patina.