Aeneas Flees Troy

338, Lot: 197. Estimate $150. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (25mm, 10.44 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Aeneas advancing right, carrying his father Anchises and leading Ascanius by the hand. Sawaya 1889-95 (D356/R754); BMC 214 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 119 (same dies). VF, brown patina, several pits. Rare.

From the Collection of a Southern Pathologist. Ex Antioch Associates 33 (8 February 2001), lot 134.