Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1319. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Tralles. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ 36mm (26.48 g, 6h). Po. Cl. Pankratides, grammateus. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Pair of hexastyle temple façades facing; in left one, emperor standing left, holding globe and scepter; in right, Zeus Nikephorus enthroned left; pellets in pediments. Imhoof-Blumer, Lydische -; SNG München -; SNG von Aulock 3290 (same dies). VF, black patina, scratches in right field of obverse. Rare.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.