250, Lot: 223. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LYDIA, Mostene. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (23mm, 6.85 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Radiate deity on horseback right, holding labrys (double-axe) over shoulder; lighted altar below horse’s raised foreleg, cypress tree to right; uncertain magistrate’s names around and in field. Imhoof-Blumer,
Lydische -; cf. SNG München 333. Near VF, dark brown patina.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection.