Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 781. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Hypaepa. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Time of Hadrian, AD 117-138. Æ 17mm (2.77 g, 6h). Athenodorus, magistrate. Laureate head of young Heracles right, lion skin tied at neck / Club and bow in bowcase. LS -; SNG München -; SNG Hunterian -; SNG von Aulock -; BMC 1 (same rev. die). Good VF, green patina with earthen overtones, minor adjustment marks. Obverse struck with die of exceptionally fine style and better than the BM specimen. Extremely rare.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.