Watch List notes:

PHRYGIA. Laodicea ad Lycum. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Assarion (Orichalcum, 20 mm, 5.95 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. SNG Copenhagen 532. Very fine.


From the collection of G. Plankenhorn (with collector's ticket), ex Hirsch 173, 19 February 1992, 452.