Extremely Rare Annia Faustina from Ephesus

CNG 90, Lot: 969. Estimate $750. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesus. Annia Faustina. Augusta, AD 221. Æ (31mm, 13.59 g, 6h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Artemis standing facing before grove, extending right arm to draw arrow and holding bow in left; at feet to left, stag standing left, head upwards to right. SNG München -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Mionnet Suppl. 628. VF, brown patina. Extremely rare.

From Group CEM. Ex Münzen & Medaillen FPL 408 (February 1979), no. 4.