Extremely Rare Ceretapa Issue

230, Lot: 207. Estimate $250. Sold for $725. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Ceretapa. Marcus Aurelius. As Caesar, AD 139-161. Æ 38mm (25.65 g, 12h). Bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Herakles standing right, leaning on club, with lion’s skin over arm, receiving eagle from Zeus Laodikeos standing left, holding scepter. SNG von Aulock 8392 = von Aulock, Phrygiens 487 (same dies). VF, grayish-green patina under earthen deposits, some cleaning scratches, mostly on the reverse. Extremely rare, only one specimen cited by von Aulock.