Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1276. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Lampsacus. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ 24mm (6.53 g, 3h). Daphnos, magistrate. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Ithyphallic Priapus standing left, holding cantharus and filleted thyrsus; lighted altar to left. Cf. SNG France 1296-7 (Gallienus); SNG Copenhagen 244 (same dies). VF, brown surfaces with green deposits, minor overall roughness.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.