Two Die-Linked Medallions

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 695. Estimate $6000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ Medallion (41mm, 35.78 g, 12h). Philippopolis mint. AVT K M AVPHL ANTWNEINOC CEB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / MHTPOPOLEWC FILIPPOPOLEWC NEWKOPOV, Hecules standing facing, head left, holding club set on ground in right hand, lion skin draped over left forearm. Mouchmov 5428; SNG Copenhagen 784 (same dies); Varbanov -. Good VF, green patina with areas of brick-red. Rare.

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot.