Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 774. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Laodicea. Caracalla. 198-217 AD. Æ Medallion (45mm, 44.56 gm, 12h). Aelius Pigretus, magistrate. [AV]T KAI M AVP ANTWNEINOC CE, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / EPI AIL PIGR HTOC ACIAP, LAODIKEWN• NEWKORO•N• in exergue, Caracalla, laureate and togate, in a chariot drawn by four lions left, holding Victory on globe in right hand, sceptre in left. BMC Phrygia pg. 315, 225 (same reverse die); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -. VF, dark green patina, ancient mount removed from obverse, leaving smoothed surfaces and traces of silvering. ($1500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (Peus 366, 25 October 2000), lot 799.