Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 1198. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Bizya. Geta. 209-212 AD. Æ 26mm (10.14 gm). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / A banquet scene; symposiast reclining on klinè to left, woman seated half-right at his feet, youth standing to left; forepart of horse to right. Youroukova 63 (same reverse die). VF, dark green patina, slightly rough surfaces. Extremely rare, possibly the third known specimen. ($500)

Possibly a local depiction of a myth involving the Bizyan king Tereus. Tereus raped his wife's sister, Philomela, and then cut her tongue out to prevent her from talking. But she managed to inform her sister anyway, and the sisters plotted their revenge by killing the king's son (presumably by a different wife) and cooking him for dinner. The coin type allegorically depicts the moment when Tereus is served his son's corpse by his wife.