Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 724. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Antinoüs, favorite of Hadrian. Died 130 AD. Æ Medallion (40mm, 46.55 gm, 12h). Polemon, magistrate. ANTINOOC HRWC, bare head right / POLEMWN ANEQ HKE CMVPNAIOC, prow of galley right. Blum pg. 40, 3; BMC Ionia -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -. VF, dark brown patina, some smoothing on reverse. ($5000)

From the David A. Dowdy Collection. Ex Sternberg 11 (20-21 November 1981), lot 283.

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