Sale: Triton X, Lot: 696. 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, 36.91 g, 12h). Philippopolis mint. AVT K M AVPHL ANTWNEINOC CEB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / MHTPOPO–LEWC FILIP–POPOLEWC NEWKOPOV, statue of Hermes standing facing, holding purse and caduceus, within octastyle temple set on three-tiered base; shield and spear in pediment. Mouchmov 5436; cf. SNG Copenhagen 784 (for obv; same obv. die); Varbanov -. Good VF, green patina. Rare.

Ex Lanz 221 (22 November 2004), lot 505 (statue misdescribed as Apollo).

Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot.