Rare Potrayal of Scipio

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 476. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Pitane. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 20mm (4.59 g, 12h). P. Cornelius Scipio, proconsul. Struck circa 8/7 BC (?). [CEBAC]TON PITANAIOI, laureate head of Augustus right / P CKIPIwNA, bare head of Scipio right; to right, head of Zeus-Ammon facing slightly left above pentagram. RPC I 2392.8 (this coin; illustrated); FITA p. 387, (2); SNG France 2370-2 (same obv. die); BMC -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, brown patina. Rare.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection.