| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 117 | Auction date: 22 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 281 Price realized: 75 GBP (Approx. 95 USD / 88 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Phrygia, Apameia Æ 17mm. Circa 2nd-1st century BC. Laureate male head (Augustus?) to right / AΠAMEΩN between two flutes; all within oak wreath. RPC I 3124 (tentatively listed as Augustus); SNG Copenhagen 206 (listed as Augustus); SNG von Aulock 3485 (same); Leu Web-12, 468 (hammer: 320 CHF). 4.92g, 17mm, 4h. Very Fine. Very Rare; only 15 examples listed on RPC online. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 95, 13 April 2022, lot 268. Although RPC includes this very rare type in its catalogue, it is noted that the identification of the portrait as Augustus is 'extremely uncertain' and that the date, being dependant on this identification, is also questionable. It could be that the coin is an earlier issue, as it is similar in arrangement to a type with the Pilei of the Dioskouroi flanking the ethnic in a wreath (cf. SNG von Aulock 3465 and SNG Copenhagen 160). Estimate: 40 GBP |  |
