The Abduction of Peresphone
From the Levante & von Aulock Collections

351, Lot: 544. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Casae. Philip II. As Caesar, AD 244-247. Æ (29mm, 15.86 g, 12h). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / The Abduction of Persephone: Hades, holding whip and abducting Persephone, in quadriga led by Hermes; below, torch and overturned flower basket. SNG France 531; SNG Levante 306 = SNG von Aulock 5612 (this coin). VF, dark green patina, minor roughness.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection. Ex Edoardo Levante Collection; Hans von Aulock Collection.