Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 730. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Antinoüs, favorite of Hadrian. Died 130 AD. Æ 35mm (24.36 gm, 12h). ANTINOOC [HRWC], head left wearing uraeus crown and wreath of ivy / ADPIA TAPCOV MHTPOPOL NEO[KOPOV], female panther standing left, her paw placed on a filleted thyrsus. Blum pg. 52, 3 var. (reverse legend); SNG Levante -; SNG France -; BMC Lycaonia pg. 189, 158 (the specimen cited in Blum); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -. Fine, tan patina, red and green encrustation. ($500)

From the David A. Dowdy Collection. Ex Waddell I (December 1982), lot 521.

Both Blum and BMC fail to mention the uraeus crown, and Blum also incorrectly reads the reverse legend.

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