Watch List notes:

PHRYGIA. Laodicea ad Lycum. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Assarion (Bronze, 21 mm, 5.50 g, 6 h), Po. Ailios Dionysios Sabinianos, magistrate, circa 139-147. ΛΑΟΔΙΚЄΩΝ Draped bust of Dionysos to right, wearing wreath of ivy and fruit. Rev. ΑΙΛ• •ΔΙΟΝYϹΙΟϹ Dionysiac mask of Silenos, wearing wreath of ivy and fruit, lying to right on cista mystica entwined by serpent; to left, pedum over which hangs pair of cymbals. BMC 96. RPC IV.2 online 2114.23 (this coin). SNG Copenhagen 532. A beautiful coin with an exceptional reverse. Nearly extremely fine.


From a Swiss collection and the collection of Dr. Stephen Gerson, Gemini VI, 10 January 2010, 623.