349, Lot: 256. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ARCADIA, Mantinea. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ Assarion (22mm, 7.45 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 198-205. IOVΛIA ΔOMNA, draped bust right / MANTI-NEΩN, Fortuna standing left, holding cornucopia and sacrificing with patera over lighted altar to left. BCD Peloponnesos 1504 var. (obv. legend); BCD Peloponnesos II 2897 var. (same); cf. NCP p. 95 (for the same rev. type, but of Plautilla); Dura –; BMC –. VF, earthen green patina. Extremely rare, and apparently an unpublished variety.
From the J. S. Wagner Collection.