CNG 97, Lot: 466. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Hadrianopolis. Lucius Verus. AD 161-169. Æ Tetrassarion (32mm, 19.50 g, 12h). Gargilius Antiquus, hegemon. ΛVΤ ΚΛΙ Μ ΑV ΡΗΛΙΟC ΟVΗΡΟC, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΗΓΕΜ ΓΛΡ ΛΝΤΙΚΟV ΛΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙT, Asclepius standing facing, head left, holding his serpent-entwined staff in his right hand. RPC Online –; Youroukova, Hadrianople 62 (V43/R62; example in Archaeological Museum Plovdiv [Inv. 1576] – same dies); Varbanov 3283 (example in private collection); Nomos 6, lot 152 = Lanz 123, lot 628 (same dies). VF, green patina, light smoothing in fields. Extremely rare, third or fourth example known.