286, Lot: 219. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Pergamum. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Medallion (40mm, 40.13 g, 12h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right; gorgoneion on breastplate; c/m: wreath / Caracalla on horseback right, head and upper body left, raising right hand in salute, left hand holding reins; to left, soldier marching right, raising right hand in salute; to right, statue of Asclepius facing, holding serpent-entwined staff, set on cippus. Von Fritze, Pergamon p. 73 and pl. VII, 14; SNG France 2231 (same dies); for c/m: Howgego 480. Fine, dark greenish-brown patina, tooled, smoothing in fields.

From the R. D. Frederick Collection.