CNG 108, Lot: 442. Estimate $750. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Perinthus. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ Medallion (43mm, 34.49 g, 6h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, with aegis over left shoulder and gorgoneion on breastplate / ΠEPI-NΘ-IΩN/ AKTIA ΠVΘIA/ ΔIC NEΩKO/PΩN, two temples seen in perspective; above, two prize urns, each containing palm frond. Schönert, Perinthos 714 var. (bust type); Varbanov 405 var. (same). Near VF, green-brown patina, smoothing. Rare type and possibly unrecorded with this bust.

This medallion is from Schönert’s obverse die F. She only recorded this reverse with obverse die D (laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right).