The Famed Tombs at Sicyon

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 686. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Plautilla. Augusta, AD 202-205. Æ 2 Assaria (5.92 g, 3h). Sicyon mint. FOVLBIA PLAVT[I]L[LA], draped bust right; cornucopia to right / CIKY/WN above, IWN in exergue, tetrastyle shrine with round object in central intercolumnation set on high basis, herm and cypress tree flanking. BCD Peloponnesos 366 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 245 (same rev. die). Near VF, black patina with orange overtones. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 366; Münzen und Medaillen 41 (18 June 1970), lot 324.