Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 777. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AEOLIS, Cyme. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Time of Gallienus, AD 253-268. Æ 22mm (5.00 g, 6h). Elpidiphorus, magistrate. Draped bust of Syncletus (Senate) right / Isis Pelagia (or Pharia) standing right on quinquereme, holding sail. SNG Leypold 518 (same dies); SNG von Aulock 1647 (same dies); BMC 116. Good VF, brown patina with light green overtones. Struck with dies of particularly fine style for the period.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.