Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1000. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Nysa. Faustina Junior, daughter of Antoninus Pius, wife of Marcus Aurelius. Augusta, 147-175 AD. Æ 18mm (4.68 gm, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / NVCA-EWN, Hades dragging away protesting Persephone in quadriga right. SNG Copenhagen 319. VF, green patina. ($150)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (Peus 366, 25 October 2000), lot 709.

According to the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 15-18, Persephone was picking flowers with her companions in the Vale of Nysa, when the ground opened up and Hades seized her.