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| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 55 | Auction date: 8 October 2010 |
| Lot number: 154 | |
| Lot description: LOKRIS LOKRI OPUNTII Lot of two bronze coins, Galba, AD 68 - 69. 154.1: Æ 7.60 g., 11¢. 154.2: Æ 6.80 g., 9¢. Laureate bust of Galba r. Rev. Male figure standing l., holding drapery and spear with his l. and extending patera with r. Extremely rare and perhaps the only Opuntian coins of Galba in private hands together with lot 467.1 below. There are two more in Berlin and one each in Copenhagen (SNG Cop 80) and the BM. This leaves the Pozzi coin, Pozzi (Boutin) 3147, which is not recorded in the corpus and its whereabouts are unknown. Distinctive portraits and about very fine. 154.1: AYTOKPATΩP ΓAΛBAC from below the bust clockwise. Rev. [O]POY - NTI - WN and EPI M [KLAU CEPAPIWNOC] from bottom l. clockwise. Although RPC 1339 does not mention the spear held by the reverse figure, the cataloguer of SNG Cop is correct in seeing a warrior on the reverse. It is clear that this coin and the coins of lots 148 and 149 depict the same person. RPC quotes Friedlander interpreting this reverse as a figure of Hermes but it appears as if, after all, we are dealing with the hero Opus all along. Corpus group 38, 2a. RPC 1339 var. SNG Cop 80 var. [rev. legend differently arranged]. 154.2: AYTOKPATWP GALBAC from below the bust clockwise. Rev. OΠOY - [NTIΩN] and EΠIM - KΛ - AΥCEPAΠI - [ΩN]O[C] from bottom l. clockwise in two lines. Corpus 38, 3b. RPC 1339/2. SNG Cop 80. Estimate: 300 CHF |  |
