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LHS Numismatik AG > Auction 96Auction date: 8 May 2006
Lot number: 449

Lot description:

Aegium (Aigion)

The coinage of Aegium under the Romans

Estimate: CHF 150.00

Assarion (AE, 5.50 g, 22 mm, 6), c. later 160s-early 170s. FAVCTeINA CeBACTH Draped bust of Faustina II to right, her hair in a bun at the back. Rev. AIGIeWN Aphrodite, nude, standing facing, her head to right, arranging her hair with her right hand and covering her pudenda with her left; to right, dolphin at her left foot. Kroll 33.1 (this coin, illustrated). NCP, R XXIII (this coin). Extremely rare. Brown patina. Good fine.

From the Griolet collection.