Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 716. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARCADIA, Mantineia(?). Antinoüs, favorite of Hadrian. Died 130 AD. Æ 33mm (24.74 gm, 6h). Veturius, priest of the cult of Antinoüs. BETOV PIOC, bare-headed, half-length bust right / [TOIC APKA]CI, horse prancing right. Blum pg. 37, 4; BMC Peloponnesus pg.177, 89 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen -. Near VF, tan patina, pitting on reverse ($750)

From the David A. Dowdy Collection. Ex Waddell I (December 1982), lot 51.

See lot 715 for a note on the life and coinage of Antinoüs.