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153, Lot: 159. Estimate $100.
Sold for $215. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesus. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ 19mm (2.69 g). AVTOKPA[...] TPAIANOC KECAP, laureate head right / EFE [AND]ROKLOC KOPHCOC, Koresos and Androkles clasping hands. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; BMC -. VF, green patina. Unpublished in the major references.

Androkles of Athens, the mythic founder of Ephesos, is shown being greeted by Koresos, personification of the mountain near which the city was built.