442, Lot: 719. Estimate $100. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PHRYGIA, Synnada. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ (26mm, 6.87 g, 7h). KO CAΛΩNINA CЄB, diademed and draped bust right / CYNNAΔ-ЄΩN IΩNΩN, Amaltheia standing right, resting on scepter and holding infant Zeus; goat at her side. SNG Copenhagen 735 var. (arrangement of rev. legend). VF, pale green patina, earthen deposits.
Ex Gorny & Mosch 160 (9 October 2007), lot 1944.
For an explanation of the reverse type, see the introductory section entitled “The Amalthean goat and the cult of Jupiter at Falerii. “