CNG 90, Lot: 1024. Estimate $200. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CARIA, Aphrodisias. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ “Gallienic Unit” (25mm, 7.20 g, 9h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Cult statue of Aphrodite of Aphrodisias facing right; star and crescent to upper left and right; to lower left, priestess seated right; fountain(?) to lower right. Karl 96; MacDonald Type 232f (O284/V565 - this coin referenced); SNG München 153-4 (same obv. die as 158); SNG von Aulock 2477 (later type); BMC 152 (same dies). Good VF, green patina, coin pierced for wearing in antiquity.
From Group CEM. Ex Waddell I (9 December 1982), lot 231.