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Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XIAuction date: 8 January 2008
Lot number: 483

Lot description:
IONIA, Metropolis. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 20mm (5.27 g, 12h). Julius Demetrios, magistrate. SEBASTOS, bare head right; to right, lituus / IOULIOS DHMHTRIOS MHTROPOLEITWN, Cybele enthroned left, extending right hand to lion seated at feet right. RPC I 2524; M. Grant, “Phrygian Metropolis in the Early Principate,” NC 1949, pp. 157-164 and pl. X, 11 (Metropolis in Phrygia); CRE Ashmolean -; SNG München -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, black-green patina with earthen overtones. Very rare.


From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 180 (24 November 1993), lot 581.


Estimate: 200 USD