Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1140. Estimate $2000. Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006. Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THRACE, Perinthus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Medallion (39mm, 31.57 g, 7h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, seen from front, aegis over left shoulder and gorgoneion on breastplate, holding spear over left shoulder / Tyche standing facing, head left, holding temple in each outstretched hand; at feet, lighted altar to left. Schönert-Geiss,
Perinthos 596; SNG Copenhagen -; cf. Varbanov 3885. VF, green patina, small areas of roughness. Rare.
Ex Lanz 120 18 May 2004), lot 417.