199, Lot: 329. Estimate $100. Sold for $165. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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IONIA, Neapolis. Pseudo-autonomous issue. 2nd-3rd centuries AD. Æ 26mm (8.45 g, 12h). Turreted and draped bust of Tyche right / Dionysus standing left, holding cup over panther and thyrsus. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Hunterian -; SNG Leypold -; SNG Tübingen -; BMC -; Lindgren -. Near VF, green-brown surfaces, porous. An apparently unrecorded type from an extremely rare city.
From the D. Alighieri Collection.