Ithyphallic Priapus

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 327. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Assarion (2.86 g, 1h). Nicopolis ad Istrum in Moesia Inferior mint. AV KAI CЄ • CЄVHPO, laureate head right / NIKOΠOΛI TΩN ΠPOC IC, ithyphallic Priapus standing left, pointing downward with right hand at his erect phallus, left hand on hip. AMNG I 1380; SNG München -; Mouchmov 987; Varbanov 1789. EF, dark green patina.