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CNG 90, Lot: 1044. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Dionysopolis. Julia Maesa. Augusta, AD 218-224/5. Æ (29mm, 10.82 g, 12h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Demeter, wearing crown, long veil, and peplos, standing facing, holding torch in each hand; to lower left, diminutive figure of Telesphorus, wearing cloak, standing facing. Von Aulock, Phrygiens 156-9 (same dies); SNG München -; SNG von Aulock -; BMC 26 (same dies). EF, brown patina, very faint porosity. Very rare and exceptional.


From Group CEM.

All of the four examples recorded by von Aulock were struck from the same dies. This obverse die was also used to strike coins for Laodicea ad Lycum (see Kraft pl. 14, 38a-b).