Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 483. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Metropolis. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 20mm (5.27 g, 12h). Julius Demetrios, magistrate. SEBASTOS, bare head right; to right, lituus / IOULIOS DHMHTRIOS MHTROPOLEITWN, Cybele enthroned left, extending right hand to lion seated at feet right. RPC I 2524; M. Grant, “Phrygian Metropolis in the Early Principate,” NC 1949, pp. 157-164 and pl. X, 11 (Metropolis in Phrygia); CRE Ashmolean -; SNG München -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, black-green patina with earthen overtones. Very rare.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 180 (24 November 1993), lot 581.