Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 715. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EPIRUS, Nicopolis. Antinoüs, favorite of Hadrian. Died 130 AD. Æ 18mm (4.24 gm, 10h). ANTIN ON QEON, bare-headed, half-length bust right / NEIKOPOLIC, eight-pointed star within the arms of a crescent moon. Blum pg. 34, 6; BMC Thessaly -; cf. SNG Copenhagen 67 (same obverse die). Near VF, dark brown and green patina, a bit rough. ($500)

From the David A. Dowdy Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XI (8 December 1982), lot 437.