Watch List notes:

CILICIA. Isaura. Caracalla, 198-217. Diassarion (Bronze, 25 mm, 9.56 g, 6 h), 205-209. AY K M AY ANTΩNINO[C] Laureate and cuirassed bust of Caracalla to right, breastplate decorated with gorgoneion. Rev. MHTPOΠOΛЄΩC ICAYP/ΩN Lycaon, laureate and on the left, standing right in military attire, holding long scepter in his left hand and receiving a tablet from Apollo, on the right, standing left, nude, holding laurel branch in his left hand; between them, wolf recumbent to left, head to right, holding human hand in his mouth. SNG Paris 494 (same obverse die). SNG von Aulock 5410-1 var. (differing arrangement of reverse legend). Light scratches on the obverse and with minor roughness on the reverse, otherwise, about extremely fine.


From the collection of Regierungsrat Dr. iur. Hans Krähenbühl, Leu 8, 23 October 2021, 191 and ex Münzen & Medaillen AG 41, 18-19 June 1970, 544.

For a reinterpretation of this issue, see Leu 11, 14 May 2022, 202.