Venus Pudica

351, Lot: 476. Estimate $150. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Pautalia. Plautilla. Augusta, AD 202-205. Æ (23mm, 9.21 g, 6h). ΦO[V]Λ ΠΛATIΛΛA CЄBAC, draped bust right / OVΛΠIAC ΠA-VTAΛIAC, Aphrodite, nude but covering breasts and groin with hands, standing slightly right. Ruzicka –; Varbanov –; Mouchmov –. VF, green patina. Unpublished in the standard references.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 175 (24 October 2007), lot 166.

The statue of Aphrodite is from a series of so-called Venus Pudica types, all deriving from Praxiteles’ famous Aphrodite of Cnidus.