Triton XVI, Lot: 149. Estimate $150. Sold for $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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TAURIC CHERSONESOS, Chersonesos. Circa AD 47/8-54/5. Æ (16mm, 4.57 g, 1h). Dated CY 76 (AD 52/3). Head of Chersonas right, wearing laurel wreath; XEP to left, serpent to right, Oς (date - 2nd digit inverted and retrograde) below / Nike advancing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling palm frond in left arm; monogram to left. Anokhin 849 var. (form of date); Anokhin,
Khersonesa 220 var. (same); RPC I 1942 var. (same); SNG Pushkin 704–5 var. (date); SNG Stancomb 953 var. (same); Sutzu II 56 corr. var. (form of date). VF, dark brown patina.
From the Alex Shubs Collection.