Second Known

196, Lot: 102. Estimate $200. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYCAONIA, Ilistra. Lucius Verus. AD 161-169. Æ 22mm (8.50 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; two monograms before, representing the titles Armeniacus and Parthicus / Herakles standing facing, leaning on club held in right hand, lion skin draped over left arm. SNG France 2307 = von Aulock, Lykaoniens, 96; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, brown patina, a few light scratches. Very rare, only the Paris specimen recorded by von Aulock.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.