CNG 88, Lot: 766. Estimate $300. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Philippopolis. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ (32mm, 21.19 g, 6h). G. Gallonius Fronto, hegemon. Laureate bust left, wearing aegis / River-god Hebrus seated left, touching prow of galley behind and reclining on upturned urn. RPC Online -; Mouchmov, Philippopolis 50; Varbanov 705 corr. (laureate and draped bust). Good VF, dark green patina with traces of red-brown, minor roughness. Very rare. Better than the specimen illustrated in Mouchmov.

From Group CEM.