CNG 90, Lot: 960. Estimate $500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Colophon. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ (32mm, 14.48 g, 7h). Aelius Severinus, magistrate. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Apollo Klarios seated left, holding laurel branch and lyre, between Artemis to left, holding long torch and with quiver over shoulder, and Nemesis to right, adjusting chiton and holding cubit rule. Cf. Milne, Kolophon 265 (for magistrate); cf. BMC 63 (same); otherwise, unpublished. VF, green-brown patina. Apparently unique, struck with dies of fine style.

From Group CEM. Ex Lanz 30 (26 November 1984), lot 783.

The type of Apollo Klarios seated left alone is a recurrent reverse design for Colophon. The extended group of gods, as seen here and on some rare earlier issues, must represent a larger sculptural group in the city.