378, Lot: 710. Estimate $75. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SWITZERLAND. Conquest of Asia Minor / Popilius and Antiochus IV. Æ Medal (32mm, 13.27 g, 12h). By Jean Dassier & sons, 1740-1750. Allegory of the Conquest of Asia Minor (“Asia Vanquished”): Roma standing over reclining personification of Asia Minor; dated AR 563 (191 BC) in exergue / Popilius and Antiochus IV (“Rome Above the Kings”): Popilius at left, draws a circle in the ground around Antiochus; to left and right are soldiers from the Roman and Syrian armies; dated year 584 (170 BC) in exergue. Eisler 35b; Catenacci pp. 72-3. EF.

From the RBW Collection, purchased from Numismatica Ars Classica, 11 December 1992.