73, Lot: 70. Estimate $75. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Homonoia between Smyrna and Athens. Commodus. 177-192 AD. Æ 25mm (8.83 gm). Aelius Herakleides, strategos. Draped bust of Senate right / Winged Athena-Nemesis standing left, holding patera and rod; wheel at feet. Klose -; SNG von Aulock -; cf. BMC Ionia pg. 301, 479 (Nemesis and Athena); cf. SNG Copenhagen 1303 (Athena with shield at feet); Mionnet -. Fine, green patina. An apparently unique and unpublished example.

From the Patrick Cooper Collection.