Watch List notes:

IONIA. Ephesus. Caracalla, 198-217. Hemiassarion (Bronze, 17 mm, 2.87 g, 7 h). •M•AYP•ANTΩNЄINOC Laureate head of Caracalla to right. Rev. ЄΦЄ/CIΩN Boar to right, with spear in its side. BMC 280. SNG München 167. Patina stripped, otherwise, nearly very fine.


This is not, as one would expect, the Kalydonian boar, but the beast killed by Androklos on the site where he would then found the city of Ephesus according to the prophesy of the Delphic oracle (see below, lot 552 and 1247).