An Enigma

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 490. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Alabanda. Augustus, with Julia Augusta (Livia)?. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 17mm (3.75 g, 12h). EPAFRODITOU AMN[...](?), bare male head right / ALABAND[E...]TOUTHLE(?), draped female bust right, wearing early Augustan coiffure. RPC I 2809.1 = Imhoof-Blumer, KM, p. 105, 7; FITA 373; SNG München -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, dark blue-green patina. Extremely rare.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen 81 (September 1995), lot 511.