CNG 90, Lot: 947. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Philippopolis. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Medallion (36mm, 27.15 g, 1h). Alexandrian Pythian Games issue. Struck AD 215. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Prize crown, inscribed ΠYΘIA and containing two palm fronds, set on table in perspective right; below, urn and five five ballot balls (ψῆφοι). Cf. Klose & Stumpf 195; Mouchmov, Phillipopolis 375; Mouchmov -; Varbanov 1393 (same dies as illustration = CNG 46, lot 813). Good VF, green patina, slightly flaky on edge, light smoothing.