Triton XVIII, Lot: 872. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THRACE, Perinthus. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ Medallion (42mm, 36.06 g, 6h). AVT K M AVP . CEVH ANTΩNEINOC AVΓ, laureate and cuirassed bust right, wearing aegis; gorgoneion on breastplate / ΠEPINΘIΩN ΔIC NEΩKOPΩN, Hercules standing left, sacrificing from patera over garlanded altar with right hand, holding club and lion’s skin in left; in upper left field, eagle left, head right. Schönert,
Perinthos 724; Varbanov 396 corr. (bust type). VF, earthen brown patina. Rare.