240, Lot: 300. Estimate $100. Sold for $410. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PHRYGIA, Diocleia. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (28mm, 10.11 g, 6h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right; facing head of Medussa on breast plate / Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia. Cf. Von Aulock,
Phrygiens - (obv. die of 251); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -. VF, brown surfaces, light roughness. Very rare, only eight speciemns of Elagabalus of all types recorded by von Aulock from Diocleia.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection.