Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 501. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYCAONIA, Lystra. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 28mm (11.84 g, 9h). Struck circa 25-6 BC. IMPE AVGVSTI (S retrograde), laureate head left; all within pelleted border / COL IVL/FEL CEM in upper left field, LVSTRA in exergue, priest standing left, plowing pomerium with yoke of oxen left and holding ornate staff in left hand. RPC I 3539; von Aulock, Lystra pp. 515 and pl. 26, 4 (same dies); Von Aulock, Lykaoniens, p. 90; SNG von Aulock 5403 var. (cornucopia to right on obv.); SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, green patina with olive overtones on reverse, light smoothing in fields of obverse.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection.

The cornucopia was erased from the die, but a trace is still visible.