Artemide Aste s.r.l.
Auction LIV 7-8 Nov 2020
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Antoninus Pius (138-161). AE Medallion, Philippopolis mint, Thrace. ΑVT AI AΔPIA ANTΩNEINOC. Laureate head right. / HΓE ΓAPΓIΛI ANTIKOY ΦIΛIΠΠOΠOΛITΩN (in exergue). Dionysos riding on back of panther right, holding thyrsos. Cf. MyIIIMOB, H. 1912 Sophia, n. 5099 (cited by Varbanov). AE. 26.71 g. 37.00 mm. RRRR. A spectacular issue of the highest rarity, possibly the second specimen known. Leather brown surfaces, with green spots. Tooled and smoothed, otherwise about EF.