CNG 97, Lot: 473. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Blaundus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (32mm, 16.75 g, 6h). Tiberius Claudius Alexandros, magistrate. Laureate and cuirassed bust right, with gorgoneion on breastplate and slight drapery on far shoulder / Hercules right, pinning Nemean Lion which he is about to strike with club. SNG München 93 var. (distribution of rev. legend; same obv. die); SNG von Aulock 2929 var. (same; same obv. die, incorrectly under Elagabalus); BMC 81-2 var. (same). VF, earthen dark brown patina.

Ex Group CEM (Classical Numismatic Group 90, 23 May 2012), lot 986 (further pedigree cited is erroneous).