The Poet Homer

442, Lot: 679. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Colophon. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (26mm, 6.8 g, 6.5h). Publius Aelius Severinus, strategos. AVT K ΠO ΛIK ΓAΛΛIHNO[C], laureate and draped bust right / Є(ΠI) CTP ΠO AI CЄBЄPЄINOV KOΛOΦΩNIΩN, Homer seated right, holding open scroll. Milne, Kolophon 271. VF, earthen green patina.

Bought from Frank L. Kovacs, per VCoins website, 2007.