Earliest Known Type from Verbe - Unpublished
237, Lot: 131. Estimate $200. Sold for $480. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PISIDIA, Verbe. Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ (31mm, 18.47 g, 12h). AYT KAI MAP AYP ANTΩNЄINOC, laureate and draped bust right / OYЄPBIANΩN, Artemis advancing right, holding bow and drawing arrow from quiver; at her feet, hound running right. Von Aulock,
Pisidiens -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG France -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Lindgren & Kovacs -; Lindgrn III -. VF, brown-green patina. A very rare city and unpublished in the standard references.
From Collection CR.
Apparently hitherto the coinage of Verbe was only known to have begun after the elevation of Commodus as Augustus. There are no earlier coins recorded in the major references.