Extremely Rare Issue

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 587. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $710. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Poemanenum. Otacilia Severa. Augusta, AD 244-249. Æ 26mm (11.38 g, 9h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Artemis advancing right, drawing bow from quiver and holding bow; at feet, hound leaping right. SNG France -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Mionnet -. VF, brown patinas. Extremely rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 870.

Artemis and her twin Apollo were the children of Zeus and Leto. A confirmed virgin, Artemis inhabited the woodland areas with her followers, hunting wild animals and scrupulously avoiding male company. She can be seen with her hunting-dog at her side, and the symbol most often associated with her is the stag, a possible association with the myth of Actaeon. At Ephesus the Artemesion, a huge temple complex whose initial construction dated back to the Bronze Age, and which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was her major cultic shrine.