Portrait of Potitus Valerius Messala

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 493. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Aezanis. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 23mm (9.12 g). Potitus Valerius Messala, proconsul. Struck circa 25 BC. POTIT MESSALAS, bare head of Potitus Valerius Messala left / [E]ZEANITWN, right hand holding scales suspended; monogram to right. RPC I 3067; Hommel pp. 301-305 and pl. XXII, 2; von Aulock, Aizanoi 7-8; von Aulock, Phrygiens -; SNG München -; SNG von Aulock 3342 = Stumpf 143a (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen -. Fine, dark green patina with lighter green overtones. Extremely rare.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Aufhäuser 13 (7 October 1997), lot 292.