345, Lot: 417. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Samos. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ (30mm, 12.01 g, 7h). IOYΛIA ΔOMNA CЄB, draped bust right / CA MI ΩN, tetrastyle temple, with shield in pediment and containing statue of Hera facing. SNG von Aulock 2307 var. (obv. legend); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC –. VF, black-green patina. Only the second example known, and the only with this obverse legend. Very rare.

From the LJH Collection. Ex Münz Zentrum 58 (23 April 1986), lot 1386.