Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1011. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $1150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Tmolus-Aureliopolis. Antinoüs, favorite of Hadrian. Died 130 AD. Æ 25mm (11.15 gm, 7h). Bare-headed and draped bust right / Tmolus(?) standing left, holding knotted staff, empty basket on head; uncertain object in right field. Blum p. 51, 1; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 3240. Fine, black-brown patina. Very rare issue of a rare city; only the third known specimen. ($1000)

Ex Triton VII (13-14 January 2004), lot 729; Marcel Burstein Collection (Peus 366, 25 October 2000), lot 747; Classical Numismatic Group XXIX (30 March 1994), lot 955 (expertly conserved since).