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245, Lot: 255. Estimate $100.
Sold for $440. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARGOLIS, Epidaurus. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Time of Hadrian, AD 117-138. Æ (20mm, 5.96 g, 12h). Laureate head of Asklepios right / Legend in three lines within wreath. BCD Peloponnesus 1272 var. (legend breaks); BMC 28 var. (same). Near VF, brown patina. Rare.


From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

From the BCD catalogue: “In the literature these coins are commonly dated simply ‘after 146 BC’ except for Head, p. 442 who terms them Imperial. They are, in fact, Hadrianic, as was proven by M. Amandry (Un monnayage d’Hadrien à Épidaure, REG CVI (July-December, pp. 329-332) who found a reverse die link between them and a newly rediscovered coin of Hadrian from Epidauros in Berlin (it came from the Imhoof-Blumer collection). They actually fit quite nicely with the revival of coinage in Greece that begun under Hadrian.”