115, Lot: 277. Estimate $75. Sold for $310. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Titiopolis. Lucius Verus. 161-169 AD. Æ 20mm (4.94 gm). Bare head right / Helmeted and draped bust of Athena right. SNG Levante -; SNG France -; E. Levante, "The Coinage of Titiopolis in Cilicia," NumChron 142 (1982), -. VF, olive green patina. An apparently unrecorded issue from an extremely rare city.

The coinage of Titiopolis is extremely rare, struck for only a century during the time of Hadrian to Plautilla. So far only eighteen coins have been traced (one of which was lost), all from just twelve known types, and there are only three known coins of