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| Gemini, LLC > Auction I | Auction date: 11 January 2005 |
| Lot number: 368 | |
| Lot description: Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161). Bronze medallion (43 mm, 44.79 gm). Ionian League of Thirteen Cities. AV KAI TI AI ADPIANOC [ANTW]NEINOC EV (beginning at 10:30), laureate, draped bust left /KOI[NON PR M] KL FPONTWNOC ACIAPXOV KAI APXIE IG POLEWN (around, beginning at 9:00), ON in upper field, Demeter standing right in biga drawn by two winged serpents, holding torch in each hand, drapery billowing above head. BMC Ionia p. 16, 2 var. Gillespie nos. 17-23 var. Flan crack at 10:00 on obverse. Bold fineThis is the only obverse die used to strike the medallions of Antoninus Pius of the Ionian League of Thirteen Cities. This reverse die was unknown to J.U. Gillespie ("A Study of the Coinage of the 'Ionian League,'" RBN 102 (1956), pp. 31-53), who recorded seven medallions with this reverse type from four or five other reverse dies. The letters ON in upper field are peculiar to this die; perhaps they go with a conjectured PP in the legend lacuna at 10:00, abbreviated there because of lack of space. The reverse legend in its full form, common to all coins of the issue, translates to "Commonwealth of Thirteen Cities, by direction of M. Claudius Fronto, Asiarch and High Priest of the Thirteen Cities.. Estimate: $2750 |  |
