Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 599. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $335. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ 22mm (5.35 g, 6h). Claudius Rufinus Sophistes, strategos. Draped bust right / Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club, lion’s skin, and kantharos. Klose Type LVIII, Series B, 13 (V5/R13); SNG Copenhagen 1378; SNG von Aulock -; BMC 377. VF, dark brown patina.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.