Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1326. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Cos. Pseudo-autonomous issue. 2nd century AD. Æ 15mm (2.01 g, 6h). Xenophon, hiereus. Bare head right / Serpent-entwined staff. SNG München -; BMC 215; SNG von Aulock -; cf. G.D. Hart, MD. Asclepius the God of Medicine (London: Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2000), Fig. 58c. Fine, green and brown patina. Very rare.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection.