Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 731. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Antinoüs, favorite of Hadrian. Died 130 AD. Æ 35mm (20.28 gm, 12h). HRWC ANTINOOC, bare head right / ADPIANHC TAPCOV MHTPOPOLEWC NEOK (around), NEW PUQIW (below tripod), tripod lebes with entwined serpent; prize crown at base. Blum pg. 52, 8 var. (reverse legend); SNG Levante -; SNG France 1419; BMC Lycaonia pg. 189, 157 (the specimen cited in Blum); SNG Copenhagen 360; SNG von Aulock -. VF, original dark green find patina, red and green encrustation. Struck on a broad medallic flan. ($1000)

From the David A. Dowdy Collection. Ex Sternberg 11 (20-21 November 1981), lot 393.

Although the reverse is particular in rather heavily encrusted, this coin is remarkable simply as a bronze of Antinoüs that has not undergone extensive "treatment," and is in its natural state.

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