Rare Mythological Type

442, Lot: 710. Estimate $300. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Apameia. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ (37mm, 24.11 g, 6h). Proclianus Tryphonos, panegyriarch. AVT K ΠO ΛIK OVAΛЄPIANO CЄBACTOC, laureate bust right, wearing full aegis with gorgoneion / ΠAPA ΠPOKΛIANOV TP[YΦΩNOC], AΠAMεΩN in exergue, Adrasteia running right, looking back, holding infant Zeus; around her, the three Kuretes, holding spears and shields. BMC –; SNG von Aulock 3514. VF, dark green patina, rough surfaces. Very rare.

Ex Pecunem/Gitbud & Naumann 30 (5 April 2015), lot 358 (hammer of €850).

For an explanation of this reverse type, see the introductory section entitled ‘The Amalthean goat and the cult of Jupiter at Falerii’.