Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 489. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Tralles. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 22mm (7.86 g, 12h). Nicomedes, magistrate. KAISAREWN, radiate head of Helios right / NIKO below horses, MHDHS in exergue, Nike, holding reins in left hand and palm in right, driving biga right. RPC I 2640; Imhoof-Blumer, Lydische -; SNG München -; SNG von Aulock -; BMC 81; SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, black-green patina with lighter green overtones. Extremely rare.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 195 (5 May 1997), lot 387.