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Dryantilla. Augusta (Usurper), AD 260. AR Antoninianus (19mm, 2.34 g, 2h). Carnuntum mint. Struck under Regalianus. Draped bust right, wearing stephane, set on crescent / Juno standing left, holding patera and scepter. RIC IV 2; GMP 25 = M. Alram & F. Schmidt-Dick, eds., Numismata Carnuntina (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2007), pl. 55, D 2-3 = R. Göbl, Regalianus und Dryantilla (Vienna: Böhlaus, 1970), pl. III, A3 = O. Voetter, Collection Ernst Prinz zu Windisch-Grätz. VI. Band (Vienna, 1904), 5514 = T. Rohde, “Silber-Antoniniane der römischen Kaiserin Sulpicia Dryantilla” in NZ 1894 = W. Kubitschek, "Die Münzen Regalians und Dryantillas" in Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes II (1899), Dryantilla 1c, Fig. 115 = Cohen 1 note (this coin, illustrated in all but Cohen); MIR 43, 1722a (same obv. die as illustration). Toned, roughness, some edge loss, wavy flan, overstruck on a denarius of Severus Alexander (partial obverse legend ...DER PIVS... visible on the reverse [as mentioned in Cohen]). Near VF. Very rare.
Ex Conti Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 121, 6 October 2022), lot 930; Phil Peck (Morris) Collection (Heritage 3071, 6 January 2019), lot 32221; Prince Ernst of Windisch-Grätz Collection; Theodor Rohde Collection; Ferdinand Fabry Collection. Found in Györ (formerly Raab), Hungary, before 1886.
Rohde’s 1894 article recounts the history of the coin up to its accession to the Prince of Windisch-Grätz’s collection. According to Rohde, coin’s journey began when Ferdinand Fabry rescued the coin from the melting pot of a Györ goldsmith, just as it was starting to melt.
Sulpicia Dryantilla was the wife of of the usurper Regalianus. Little is known about her other than that she was the daughter of Sulpicius Pollio, an officer and senator under Caracalla, and Claudia Ammiana Dryantilla, a possible descendent of the Lycian senator Claudius Dryantianus. Shortly after her husband’s usurpation, she was given the title of Augusta. She was most likely killed along with her husband following his defeat.
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CNG Feature Auction 133 – Session Two – Lot 309-594 will be held Tuesday morning, 15 September 2026 beginning at 2:00 PM ET.
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