Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 968. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Hierapolis ad Chrysorrhoas. 3rd century AD. Æ 30mm (11.94 g, 5h). DH-MOC, laureate bust of Demos right, slight drapery on left shoulder / IERAPOLEITWN, NEWKOR/WN in two lines in exergue, river-god Chrysorrhoas reclining left on upturned urn from which water flows, holding two poppies in right hand. Von Aulock, Phrygiens -; SNG Copenhagen 439; cf. BMC 70; cf. SNG von Aulock 3636 (for obv. type). EF, beautiful red and green patina. ($500)