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Web Auction 15  27-28 Feb 2021
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Lot 1141

Starting price: 50 CHF
Price realized: 280 CHF
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AEOLIS. Temnus. Geta, as Caesar, 198-209. Diassarion (Bronze, 25 mm, 9.44 g, 12 h), Asklepi..., magistrate. Λ CЄΠ ΓЄΤΑC KAICAP Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Geta to right; seen from behind. Rev. ЄΠΙ CTPA ACΚΛΗΠΙ TPE TH/MN-ЄI/TΩ-N Athena standing front, head to left, holding patera in her right hand and spear and shield with her left. BMC -. Kraft pl. 74, 3b. SNG Copenhagen -. SNG Leypold -. SNG München -. SNG von Aulock -. Extremely rare. Some deposits, otherwise, good very fine.


This obverse die was also used to strike coins from Smyrna (see Leu 7 (2020), 1443), which points towards a centralized production of the Temnean issue in the nearby larger city.
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