Triton XVIII, Lot: 874. Estimate $500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CORINTHIA, Corinth. Pseudo-autonomous issue. temp. Hadrian, AD 117-138. Æ (22mm, 9.08 g, 12h). Head of Aphrodite right, her hair tied back, wearing earring and necklace / COL · L · IVL [CO]Я ·, Bellerophon on Pegasus right, wielding spear at chimaera left. BCD Corinth 637-38 var. (arrangement of rev. legend; same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 297-98 var. (same; same obv. die); BMC 693-95 var. (same). VF, brown surfaces. Scarce. Wonderful mythological type.
From the RH Collection.