Portrait of Marcellus

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 494. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Cibyra. Nero(?). AD 54-68. Æ 19mm (4.66 g, 6h). Marcellus, legate(?). MAR KELLOC, bare head of Marcellus right / KIBU RATWN, eagle standing left on altar, head right. RPC I 2890; von Aulock, Phrygiens -; Imhoof-Blumer, KM 27 and pl. VIII, 14 (same obv. die); SNG von Aulock 8397 (‘Zeit des Tiberius’); Weber 7060; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, black-green patina with traces of olive encrustation. Very rare.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Malter XXXIV (13 December 1986), lot 371; Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack's, 10 June 1970), lot 376.