Sale: Nomos 6, Lot: 180. Estimate CHF350.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 May 2012.  Sold For CHF480. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Phigaleia, Achaia. Plautilla, wife of Caracalla. 202-205. Assarion (Bronze, 21.5mm, 3.76 g 1). ΠΛΑΥΤΙΛΛΑ CΕΒΑCΤΗ Draped bust of Plautilla to right. Rev. ΦΙΑΛΕWΝ Plautilla, on the left, and Caracalla, on the right, standing facing each other and clasping their right hands together. BCD Peloponnesos 1657 (this coin), otherwise unpublished. Apparently unique. Green patina. Very fine.

From the M Collection, and from the BCD Collection, LHS 96, 8 May 2006, 1657, acquired from F. Kovacs in 1996 who acquired it in the bazaar in Istanbul.