Rare Portrait of Antony

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 516. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Ace-Ptolemais. Mark Antony. 42-31 BC. Æ 24mm (8.67 g, 1h). Dated CY 11 (39/38 BC). Bare head right within laurel wreath / L IA/ KAI AC in left field, PTOLE/MAEWN/IERAC in right, Tyche Soteiros (Fortuna Redux) standing left on prow of galley, head right, holding aplustre and rudder in right hand and cradling cornucopia and palm in left arm. RPC I 4740.6 (this coin); Seyrig, Monnayage 19; Kadman, Akko 73; Rouvier 993; AUB 8; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, dark green patina with earthen overtones and encrustation.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Schweizerische Kreditanstalt 2 (27 April 1984), lot 437.