RPC Plate Coin

5659567.

SOLD $1975

PHRYGIA, Hierapolis. temp. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (30mm, 11.94 g, 5h). ΔHMOC, laureate bust of Demos right, slight drapery on left shoulder / IЄPAΠOΛЄITΩN NЄΩKOPΩN, river-god Chrysorrhoas reclining left, holding poppy and grain ears and reclining on urn from which water flows. Johnston, Hierapolis 62; RPC VI Online 5477.6 = Martin, Demos 174, 11a.6 (this coin). Red-green patina, some doubling in legends, slight smoothing. EF. An exceptional coin in hand.

Ex Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 968.