Highly Interesting Issue

250, Lot: 225. Estimate $300. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Antiochia ad Maeandrum. Pseudo-autonomous issue. 2nd-3rd centuries AD. Æ (31mm, 18.33 g, 6h). Diademed and draped bust of Antiochos I right / Eagle flying left, head right, above garlanded altar. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG München -; BMC -. VF, dark green patina, minor marks. Rare.

Most of the Imperial coinage from this city bears the heads of Boule, the Senate or Gerousia. This remarkable, rare piece bears an idealized head of the city’s founder, Antiochos I, and is one of the few instances where an Imperial coin bears the head of a Hellenistic ruler.