Adventus Antonini Augusti Medallion

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 474. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Pergamum. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Medallion (42mm, 45.74 g, 12h). M. Caerelius Attalus, strategus. Struck AD 215-217. AVT KPAT K M A PKOC AVP ANTWNEINOC, laureate and cuirassed bust right; gorgoneion on breastplate / EPI [C]TP M KAIPEL AT[T]/ALOV PERGAMHNW/N, PRWTWN G NE/WKOR[WN] in two lines in exergue, Caracalla on horseback right, head and upper body left, raising right hand in salute, left hand holding reins; to left, soldier marching right, raising right hand in salute; to right, statue of Asclepius facing, [holding serpent-entwined staff], set on cippus. Von Fritze, Pergamon p. 73 and pl. VII, 14 var. (rev. only illustrated; placement of legend); SNG France 2232 (same dies); BMC 321; cf. SNG von Aulock 1414; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, black-olive and gray-green patina, light overall roughness. Rare.