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Auction 3  27 Oct 2018
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Lot 177

Estimate: 500 CHF
Price realized: 2500 CHF
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PAMPHYLIA. Perge. Maximinus I, 235-238. Diassarion (Orichalcum, 25 mm, 11.49 g, 1 h). AY•K•Γ•IOY•MAXIMЄINOC•ЄY Laureate and cuirassed bust of Maximinus I to right, seen from behind. Rev. ΠЄPΓAIΩN Distyle aedicula; within, facing cult statue of Artemis Pergaia, wearing polos, its body decorated with fourteen figures in three bands; to lower left and right, a bird standing on small cippus; star and crescent in upper left and right fields; in pediment, eagle. SNG Copenhagen 338 (same dies). SNG Paris 488 var. (obverse). SNG von Aulock -. Rare and with faint traces of contemporary gilding. A sharply struck piece with an astoundingly detailed rendering of the cult statue of Artemis Pergaia. Extremely fine.


Ex Lanz 54, 12 November 1990, 816.
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