Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 488. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Tralles. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 20mm (5.83 g, 12h). Vedius Pollio, legate of Asia; Menandros, son of Parrhasios, magistrate. OUHDIOS KAISAREWN, bare head of Vedius Pollio right / MENANDROS PARRASIOU, laureate head of Zeus right. RPC I 2635.17 = Stumpf 157p (this coin); Imhoof-Blumer, Lydische pp. 174-5; SNG München 718; SNG von Aulock -; BMC 76-8; SNG Copenhagen 688. Good VF, black-green patina with olive overtones.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Auctiones 13 (23 June 1983), lot 316.