Gemini III, January 9th, 2007



                  Lot # 424 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$500 / Price 
                  Realized: US$300 
                  Caracalla. Bronze 35 mm 



             



            Caracalla. (198-217 AD). Bronze 35 mm (20.45 gm). Lydia, Sardes. AVT 
            KAI M AVP - CE ANTÙÍÅÉÍÏ - C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust 
            right / EÐI Ã KË MI - ÈPOV APX A around, [C]APÄIANÙN B NEÙKOPÙN in 
            exergue, Caracalla, laureate and in military dress, standing left, 
            holding spear under left arm, and raising wreath in right hand above 
            cult statue of Kore, extended toward him by city-goddess with her 
            right hand; city-goddess stands right, towered and veiled, and holds 
            transverse scepter in left hand. Aufhauser, October 1989, 456 = G. 
            Hirsch 159, 1988, 856 (same dies). Otherwise unpublished. Apparently 
            the second known specimen. Smooth green patina. Very fine. 

            The type appears to commemorate some honor granted to the cult of 
            Kore at Smyrna by Caracalla during his sole reign. No coins of 
            Smyrna naming the archon Mithros were known to B. Head in BMC Lydia, 
            p. civ, but there are two coins of Julia Domna naming this 
            magistrate in SNG von Aulock, 3156 and 8256. 




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  ... Lot 424 sold for high bid of $300 [ $345, or approx 266.685 EUR, 175.95 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 


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