View of the Acrocorinth

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 581. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ 19mm (7.68 g, 9h). Corinth mint. Licinius and Octavius, duoviri. Struck AD 42-43 or 45-46. CLAVD CAES, laureate head left / OCTAVIO/II VIR up left, LICIN/ITER down right, [COR in exergue], view of the Acrocorinth from the eastern summit: façade of hexastyle Temple of Aphrodite set on rock outcropping. RPC I 1180; Amandry XVIII4 (Db1/Raa3); BCD Corinth 419 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen 231. VF, brown patina. An attractive and well-struck example.

Ex BCD Collection (Lanz 105, 26 November 2001), lot 419.