Portrait of Fabius Maximus

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 495. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Hierapolis. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 15mm (3.48 g, 12h). Paullus Fabius Q.f. Maximus, proconsul; Tryphon, magistrate. Struck 10-9 BC. FABIOS down right, MAXIM[OS] down left, bare head of Fabius Maximus, with features of Augustus, right / IERAPO/LEITWN/TRUFWN in three lines. RPC I 2942.5 (this coin); von Aulock, Phrygiens -; BMC 95 = Stumpf 148c; SNG München -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen 448 var. (magistrate). Good VF, red-brown patina. Rare.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection.