Very Rare Armenia Minor Provincial

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 836. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARMENIA MINOR. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ 33mm (23.84 g, 12h). Dated RY 17 and CY 43 (AD 114/5). Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder; [RY date in legend] / Mourning Armenia seated left on shields; to left, trophy with shield at base; CY date in exergue. SNG von Aulock 146; RG 8; Missere 202. Fine, black- green patina with areas of red and earthen encrustation. Very rare.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.